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. 2017 Oct 16;19(10):e344. doi: 10.2196/jmir.8421

Table 1.

Description of tweets and Twitter users.

Variable Total, n (%)
Number of raising awareness messages in a tweet

0 1273 (67.68)

1 347 (18.45)

2 149 (7.92)

3 83 (4.41)

4 25 (1.33)

5 4 (0.21)
Sensitizing tweet 608 (32.32)

Incentive to carry out the smear test 440 (23.39)

Reminder of smear test preventive nature 217 (11.54)

Allusion to the mortality or morbidity of cervical cancer 134 (7.12)

Testimony of an experience related to smear test or cervical cancer 92 (4.89)

Smear test importance 63 (3.35)

Evidence of the number of cervical cancers 41 (2.18)

Low incidence of smear test 27 (1.44)
Categories of Twitter users

Unknown 442 (23.5)

Nonhealth and nonmedia company 396 (21.05)

Health company 292 (15.52)

Blogger or YouTuber 262 (13.93)

Media company 240 (12.76)

Fashion activity 240 (12.76)

Marketing activity 220 (11.70)

National Health Service 79 (4.2)

General public 77 (4.09)

Woman who experienced cervical cancer or who had relatives that had experienced cervical cancer 60 (3.19)

Health professional 53 (2.82)

Woman who experienced an abnormal smear test 33 (1.75)

Politician 12 (0.64)

Woman who experienced an unspecified cancer or had relatives with a similar status 6 (0.32)