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. 2022 Mar 24;8(1):e31388. doi: 10.2196/31388

Table 2.

Stratification of Twitter mentions by health care providers and the general public from January 2018 to December 2019.

Month, year

Prevention, n (%) Survivorship, n (%) Treatment, n (%) Research, n (%) Policy, n (%)

HCPa GPb HCP GP HCP GP HCP GP HCP GP
Jan 2018 62 (8.3) 620 (10.2) 132 (5.9) 1276 (4.6) 435 (9.5) 3409 (6.7) 405 (8.3) 4005 (10.0) 0 (0) 2 (0.8)
Feb 2018 89 (11.9) 648 (10.6) 97 (4.4) 967 (3.5) 184 (4.0) 2076 (4.1) 314 (6.4) 2907 (7.3) 0 (0) 2 (0.8)
Mar 2018 76 (10.2) 547 (8.9) 98 (4.4) 2805 (10.1) 347 (7.6) 3498 (6.9) 372 (7.6) 3151 (7.9) 2 (18.2) 37 (14.2)
April 2018 69 (9.2) 377 (6.2) 115 (5.2) 1026 (3.7) 285 (6.2) 2050 (4.0) 410 (8.4) 2521 (6.3) 1 (9.1) 16 (6.2)
May 2018 65 (8.7) 649 (10.7) 158 (7.1) 1576 (5.7) 438 (9.6) 4841 (9.5) 424 (8.7) 3162 (7.9) 1 (9.1) 17 (6.5)
June 2018 54 (7.3) 286 (4.7) 531 (23.9) 3510 (12.6) 903 (19.7) 5092 (10.0) 854 (17.5) 6322 (15.8) 1 (9.1) 12 (4.6)
July 2018 35 (4.7) 248 (4.1) 95 (4.3) 1073 (3.9) 244 (5.3) 2811 (5.5) 255 (5.2) 2629 (6.6) 0 (0) 3 (1.2)
Aug 2018 47 (6.3) 634 (10.4) 137 (6.2) 3360 (12.1) 244 (5.3) 4184 (8.2) 380 (7.8) 3285 (8.2) 1 (9.1) 6 (2.3)
Sept 2018 36 (4.8) 250 (4.1) 122 (5.5) 1046 (3.8) 246 (5.4) 2441 (4.8) 392 (8.0) 2780 (6.9) 0 (0) 1 (0.4)
Oct 2018 80 (10.7) 833 (13.7) 114 (5.1) 1242 (4.5) 231 (5.0) 3816 (7.5) 287 (5.9) 2497 (6.2) 1 (9.1) 108 (41.5)
Nov 2018 106 (14.2) 802 (13.2) 297 (13.4) 4137 (14.9) 552 (12.04) 13,428 (26.5) 460 (9.4) 4907 (12.3) 3 (27.3) 52 (20.0)
Dec 2018 29 (3.9) 201 (3.3) 321 (14.5) 5796 (20.8) 472 (10.3) 3106 (6.1) 331 (6.8) 1793 (4.5) 1 (9.1) 4 (1.5)
Jan 2019 60 (6.2) 390 (4.7) 178 (7.8) 1350 (3.9) 337 (3.0) 3365 (3.0) 506 (8.8) 2844 (5.8) 0 (0) 1 (0.4)
Feb 2019 74 (7.6) 534 (6.4) 124 (5.4) 1543 (4.5) 212 (3.8) 3200 (2.9) 357 (6.2) 3109 (6.4) 0 (0) 6 (2.4)
Mar 2019 83 (8.5) 692 (8.3) 271 (11.9) 10,724 (31.4) 595 (10.7) 5930 (5.3) 605 (10.5) 5195 (10.6) 0 (0) 28 (11.4)
April 2019 56 (5.8) 310 (3.7) 165 (7.2) 1097 (3.2) 522 (9.4) 3865 (3.5) 525 (9.1) 3911 (8.0) 2 (11.8) 27 (10.9)
May 2019 116 (11.9) 902 (10.8) 171 (7.5) 1965 (5.7) 565 (10.2) 9929 (8.9) 503 (8.7) 3169 (6.5) 2 (11.8) 18 (7.3)
June 2019 42 (4.3) 424 (5.1) 299 (13.1) 1693 (4.9) 772 (13.9) 4589 (4.1) 686 (11.9) 4861 (9.9) 0 (0) 12 (4.9)
July 2019 40 (4.1) 1965 (23.6) 144 (6.3) 795 (2.3) 428 (7.7) 3782 (3.4) 444 (7.7) 2948 (6.0) 4 (23.5) 25 (10.2)
Aug 2019 176 (18.1) 941 (11.3) 221 (9.7) 3842 (11.2) 562 (10.1) 36,267 (32.6) 388 (6.7) 4635 (9.5) 6 (35.3) 21 (8.5)
Sept 2019 65 (6.7) 333 (3.9) 193 (8.5) 1759 (5.1) 272 (4.9) 6813 (6.1) 452 (7.9) 3580 (7.3) 1 (5.9) 21 (8.5)
Oct 2019 105 (10.8) 599 (7.2) 131 (5.7) 1684 (4.9) 299 (5.4) 5529 (4.9) 390 (6.8) 3324 (6.8) 0 (0) 20 (8.1)
Nov 2019 99 (10.2) 674 (8.1) 280 (12.3) 5405 (15.8) 456 (8.2) 7385 (6.6) 644 (11.2) 8206 (16.8) 2 (11.8) 50 (20.3)
Dec 2019 55 (6.7) 578 (6.9) 105 (4.6) 2318 (6.8) 544 (9.8) 20,672 (18.6) 256 (4.5) 3048 (6.2) 0 (0) 17 (6.9)
Total - 2018, n 748 6095 2217 27,814 4581 50,752 4884 39,959 11 260
Total - 2019, n 971 8342 2282 34,175 5564 111,326 5756 48,830 17 246

aHCP: health care provider.

bGP: general public.