Table 4. Reasons for searching health information on Twitter.
| Items | Frequency (n) | Percentage (%) |
| Reasons for Twitter search | ||
| Disease prevention | 170 | 44.3 |
| Search of a cure for my illness | 154 | 40.1 |
| Epidemic outbreaks | 109 | 28.4 |
| General knowledge | 256 | 66.7 |
| Twitter search according to health specialties | ||
| Nutrition/weight loss | 229 | 59.6 |
| Healthy lifestyle | 225 | 58.6 |
| Family medicine | 125 | 32.6 |
| Cosmetics | 90 | 23.4 |
| Cancer and its prevention | 75 | 19.5 |
| Dermatology | 61 | 15.9 |
| First aid | 61 | 15.9 |
| Dental | 59 | 15.4 |
| Internal medicine | 56 | 14.6 |
| Pediatrics | 44 | 11.5 |
| Ob-Gyne | 43 | 11.2 |
| Other | 43 | 11.2 |
| Infectious diseases | 39 | 10.2 |
| Heart diseases | 36 | 9.4 |
| Sexually transmitted diseases | 28 | 7.3 |
| Pulmonology | 26 | 6.8 |