Table 4.
Top 10 external sources of information mentioned in the bowel disease tweets posted by organizations. The URLs are sorted by the corresponding sum of the number of tweets, retweets, and favorites.
| Source of information | Category | Number of tweets, n | Number of retweets, n | Number of favorites, n |
| Guts4life [85] | Health Web page | 7 | 164 | 1918 |
| Are Your Digestion Troubles Irritable Bowel Syndrome? [86] | Informative or campaign | 5 | 128 | 231 |
| About Crohn’s Disease [87] | Informative or campaign | 1 | 69 | 63 |
| Can You Treat Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Cannabis? [88] | Informative or campaign | 4 | 34 | 84 |
| How to Manage Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Your Brain [89] | Informative or campaign | 3 | 30 | 77 |
| Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) [90] | Health Web page | 10 | 45 | 51 |
| Why I Get Excited When You Say You Know Someone With IBD [91] | Informative or campaign | 3 | 27 | 65 |
| New Treatment Options for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases [92] | Scientific | 1 | 30 | 57 |
| Supporting Someone With IBD: A Guide For Friends and Family [93] | Health Web page | 2 | 31 | 48 |
| Chronic Inflammation [94] | Informative or campaign | 5 | 48 | 26 |