Table 1 Characteristics of the accounts (followers > 500)
From: Cancer patients on Twitter: a novel patient community on social media
Variables | Numbers | |
|---|---|---|
Sex (male/female/unknown) | 24/24/3 | |
Patients (male/female/unknown) | Breast cancer | 13 (1/12/0) |
Malignant lymphoma | 10 (8/1/1) | |
Leukemia | 5 (2/3/0) | |
Stomach cancer | 5 (3/1/1) | |
Uterine cancer | 4 (0/4/0) | |
Brain tumor | 4 (4/0/0) | |
Colon cancer | 4 (2/1/1) | |
Renal cancer | 1 (1/0/0) | |
Prostate cancer | 1 (1/0/0) | |
Thyroid cancer | 1 (0/1/0) | |
Lung cancer | 1 (1/0/0) | |
Bladder cancer | 1 (1/0/0) | |
Ovarian cancer | 10/1/0 | |
Area (male/female/unknown) | Hokkaido, Tohoku | 1 (1/0/0) |
Kanto | 23 (7/14/2) | |
Chubu | 11 (6/5/0) | |
Kinki | 8 (4/4/0) | |
Chugoku | 0 | |
Shikoku | 0 | |
Kyushu, Okinawa | 2 (1/1/0) | |
Unknown | 6 (5/0/1) | |
Identified by full name | 27 (12/15/0) (52.9%) | |
Profile photograph of self | 21 (11/10/0) (41.2%) | |
Contained link to any Web site | 14 (9/5/0) (27.5%) | |
Link to own blog | 22 (11/10/1) (43.1%) | |
Followers | Average | 2079 |
Median | 1077 | |
Minimum | 520 | |
Maximum | 33828 | |
Tweets | Average | 5608 |
Median | 2370 | |
Minimum | 44 | |
Maximum | 44746 | |
Tweets/day | Average | 15.2 |
Median | 5.7 | |
Minimum | 0.1 | |
Maximum | 126.3 |