Table 6.
Total number of tweets in each user category (n) | Theme-wise tweets | ||||||||
Miscellaneous, n (%) | Advice and information n (%) |
Experience n (%) |
Misconception n (%) |
Prayers and wishes n (%) |
Seeking medical advice n (%) |
Seeking medical/financial help n (%) |
Offering medical/financial help n (%) |
Analogy n (%) |
|
General users, n=25,774 | 760 (2.9)a | 1120 (4.3)a | 613 (2.4)a | 1864 (7.2)a | 19,294 (74.9)a | 260 (1.0)a | 291 (1.1)a | 35 (0.1)a | 1537 (5.9)a |
Patients with cancer/survivors, n=854 | 26 (3.0) | 24 (2.8)a | 464 (54.3)a | 7 (0.8)a | 64 (7.5)a | 3 (8.5)a | 183 (21.4)a | 9 (1.1)a | 4 (0.5)a |
Relatives/friends of patients with cancer, n=1913 | 34 (1.8)a | 42 (2.2)a | 615 (32.1)a | 16 (0.8)a | 821 (42.9)a | 137 (7.2)a | 245 (12.8)a | 0 (0) | 3 (0.2)a |
Cancer specialists, n=222 | 4 (1.8) | 206 (92.8)a | 5 (2.2) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 4 (1.8) | 2 (0.9) | 1 (0.4) | 0 (0) |
Health-related accounts, n=459 | 46 (10.0)a | 215 (46.8)a | 46 (10.0)a | 21 (4.6) | 85 (18.5)a | 13 (2.8) | 20 (4.4) | 7 (1.5)a | 6 (1.3)a |
Media-related accounts, n=680 | 62 (9.1)a | 281 (41.3)a | 104 (15.3)a | 176 (25.9)a | 24 (3.5)a | 0 (0) | 13 (1.9) | 14 (2.1)a | 6 (0.9)a |
aStatistically significant at Bonferroni-adjusted P<.001.