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. 2020 May 23;44(9):2881–2891. doi: 10.1007/s00268-020-05553-8

Table 2.

Summary of Social Media Content

Summary of #GlobalSurgery Social Media Content
Dates: Jan 1st, 2019 to Mar 31st, 2019
Categories Instagram (%) Twitter (%) p-value
Media format
 Picture 458 94.6 768 43.0  < 0.001
 Video 26 5.4 36 2.0
 Text 0 0.0 984 55.0
Tone
 Positive 369 76.2 771 43.1  < 0.001
 Neutral 114 23.6 1012 56.6
 Negative 1 0.2 5 0.3
Perspective
 Patient 2 0.4 0 0.0  < 0.001
 Physician/individual 135 27.9 1083 60.6
 Friend/family 1 0.2 2 0.1
 Business 56 11.6 128 7.2
 Professional organization 290 59.9 575 32.2
Content
 Education 69 14.3 417 23.3  < 0.001
 Advertisement 90 18.6 337 18.8
 Public image 248 51.2 738 41.3
 Research 18 3.7 281 15.7
 News 0 0.0 3 0.2
 Personal experience 59 12.2 12 0.7
Visibility
 #hashtags/post 11.4 2.8
Popularity
 Likes/post 488.8 9.7
 Retweets/post 4.3
 Replies/post 0.4