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. 2015 Dec 14;11(6):1627–1641. doi: 10.1177/1557988315617826

Table 2.

Comparison of Counts and Percentages for Each Topic Code Categorized as Health-related and Non-health-related Tweets.

Topic code Country Health-related
Non-health-related
Total number of tweets
Number of tweets with topic Number of tweets with topic/4,222 tweets (%) Total number of tweets for U.S., Canada, U.K. Total number of tweets for U.S., Canada, U.K./12,666 (%) Number of tweets with topic Number of tweets with topic/ 4,222 tweets (%) Total number of tweets for U.S., Canada, U.K. Total number of tweets for U.S., Canada, U.K./12,666 (%)
Health-related vs. Non-health-related U.S. 917 21.7 2,908 68.9 3,305 78.3 9,758 77 4,222
Canada 673 15.9 3,549 84.1 4,222
U.K. 1,318 31.2 2,904 68.8 4,222
Health information—Prostate cancer U.S. 25 0.6 50 0.4 25
Canada 24 0.6 24
U.K. 1 0.02 1
Health information—Testicular cancer U.S. 6 0.1 14 0.1 6
Canada 7 0.2 7
U.K. 1 0.02 1
Health information—Mental health U.S. 3 0.1 8 0.1 3
Canada 5 0.1 5
U.K. 0 0 0
Health information—Other men’s health issues U.S. 4 0.1 12 0.1 4
Canada 8 0.2 8
U.K. 0 0 0
Moustache growing and grooming U.S. 329 7.8 864 6.8 1,270 30.1 3,656 28.9 1,599
Canada 83 2 1,383 32.8 1,466
U.K. 452 10.7 1,003 23.8 1,455
Community engagement U.S. 432 10.2 1,692 13.4 556 13.2 2,885 22.8 988
Canada 443 10.5 1,386 32.8 1,829
U.K. 817 19.4 943 22.3 1,760
Vision, values, and goals U.S. 336 8 1,609 12.7 11 0.3 315 2.5 347
Canada 459 10.8 283 6.7 742
U.K. 814 19.3 21 0.5 835
Commercial, contests, and giveaways U.S. 22 0.5 37 0.3 479 11.4 817 6.5 501
Canada 14 0.3 232 5.5 246
U.K. 1 0.02 106 2.5 107