Table 6.
Descriptive characteristics of those tweets in which the user was categorized as a patient, health professional, or health institutions, and further designated as either not including a link or including a scientific or a nonscientific link.
| Link | Patients, n (%) | Health professionals, n (%) | Health institutions, n (%) | Total, n (%) |
| None | 52 (50) | 39 (37.50) | 13 (12.50) | 104 (100) |
| Scientific | 0 (0) | 70 (31.25) | 154 (68.75) | 224 (100) |
| Nonscientific | 1 (2.1) | 13 (27.08) | 34 (70.83) | 48 (100) |
| Total | 53 (14.10) | 122 (32.45) | 201 (53.46) | 376 (100) |