Table 1.
Comparison of genitourinary cancers, Twitter categorization, and associated variables with data represented by N or Median (IQR)
| Academic | Medical Education | Patient Advocacy/Non-Profit | Pharmaceutical | Other | P- value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bladder Tweets (n = 138 tweets) | ||||||
| Number of tweets | 56 | 38 | 28 | 1 | 15 | |
| Number of unique Twitter handles | 26 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 11 | |
| Number of Likes per tweet | 4 (2–10.5) | 3 (1–7) | 2 (1–5) | 3 (3–3) | 1 (0–4) | 0.05 |
| Number of Retweets per tweet | 2 (0–3.5) | 1 (0–3) | 1 (0–3) | 1 (1–1) | 0 (0–1) | 0.17 |
| Kidney Tweets (n = 137 tweets) | ||||||
| Number of Tweets | 38 | 11 | 61 | 1 | 26 | |
| Number of unique Twitter handles | 26 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 3 | |
| Number of Likes per tweet | 6.5 (3–12) | 4 (1–6) | 3 (2–6) | 0 (0–0) | 0 (0–0) | < 0.0001 |
| Number of Retweets per tweet | 3 (0–7) | 2 (0–4) | 2 (1–3) | 0 (0–0) | 0 (0–0) | < 0.0001 |
| Prostate Tweets (n = 455 tweets) | ||||||
| Number of Tweets | 134 | 77 | 183 | 19 | 85 | |
| Number of unique Twitter handles | 75 | 51 | 49 | 12 | 30 | |
| Number of Likes per tweet | 2 (0–5) | 5 (1–15) | 2 (0–4) | 1 (0–2) | 1 (0–5.5) | < 0.0001 |
| Number of Retweets per tweet | 1 (0–3) | 1 (0–5) | 1 (0–3) | 0 (0–1) | 0 (0–2) | 0.04 |