Table 2.

The top 10 accounts by number of followers of Japanese medical institutions.

No.	Account name	Hospital or clinic	Medical specialty	Prefecture	Date joined	Total tweets	Followers	Tweets/daya
1	@team_nakagawa	Hospital	General hospital (therapeutic radiology)	Tokyo	March 15, 2011	285	169,407	0.33
2	@Sanhujinka	Clinic	Obstetrics and gynecology	Kanagawa	April 7, 2010	81,753	90,906	68.41
3	@biyoudoctor	Clinic	Cosmetic surgery	Tokyo	September 20, 2010	4603	48,151	4.47
4	@SBCLASIK	Clinic	Ophthalmology	Tokyo	March 8, 2010	6303	45,063	5.15
5	@sbcmatsuoka	Clinic	Dermatology	Tokyo	September 24, 2010	1559	32,609	1.52
6	@GVBDO	Clinic	Dentistry	Gifu	May 21, 2010	31,568	27,121	27.43
7	@ryouki4181	Clinic	Dentistry	Osaka	July 6, 2010	1422	21,365	1.29
8	@suzuki1855	Clinic	Dentistry	Yamagata	November 9, 2009	1656	18,914	1.23
9	@Drponchi	Clinic	Internal medicine	Kanagawa	May 19, 2011	7370	16,852	9.35
10	@moriyukabc	Clinic	Cosmetic surgery	Mie	December 5, 2010	359	13,916	0.38
Median						3129.5	29,865	3.00

^aUp to July 15, 2013.