Introduction
Methods
Inclusion criteria
Results
Dates: Jan 1st, 2019 to Mar 31st, 2019 | ||||||
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Country | Instagram (%) | Twitter (%) | Totals (%) | |||
USA | 326 | 67.4 | 689 | 38.5 | 1015 | 44.7 |
UK | 47 | 9.7 | 345 | 19.3 | 392 | 17.3 |
International organizations1 | 14 | 2.9 | 247 | 13.8 | 261 | 11.5 |
Canada | 9 | 1.9 | 121 | 6.8 | 130 | 5.7 |
Mexico | 2 | 0.4 | 29 | 1.6 | 31 | 1.4 |
India | 2 | 0.4 | 29 | 1.6 | 31 | 1.4 |
Rwanda | 1 | 0.2 | 28 | 1.6 | 29 | 1.3 |
Kenya | 2 | 0.4 | 27 | 1.5 | 29 | 1.3 |
Pakistan | 12 | 2.5 | 16 | 0.9 | 28 | 1.2 |
Burundi | 0 | 0.0 | 25 | 1.4 | 25 | 1.1 |
South Africa | 7 | 1.4 | 17 | 1.0 | 24 | 1.1 |
Sweden | 5 | 1.0 | 15 | 0.8 | 20 | 0.9 |
Africa | 0 | 0.0 | 18 | 1.0 | 18 | 0.8 |
Colombia | 4 | 0.8 | 12 | 0.7 | 16 | 0.7 |
Turkey | 15 | 3.1 | 1 | 0.1 | 16 | 0.7 |
Others2,3,4 | 38 | 7.9 | 169 | 9.4 | 207 | 9.1 |
Comparison
Summary of #GlobalSurgery Social Media Content | |||||
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Dates: Jan 1st, 2019 to Mar 31st, 2019 | |||||
Categories | Instagram (%) | Twitter (%) | p-value | ||
Media format | |||||
Picture | 458 | 94.6 | 768 | 43.0 | < 0.001 |
Video | 26 | 5.4 | 36 | 2.0 | |
Text | 0 | 0.0 | 984 | 55.0 | |
Tone | |||||
Positive | 369 | 76.2 | 771 | 43.1 | < 0.001 |
Neutral | 114 | 23.6 | 1012 | 56.6 | |
Negative | 1 | 0.2 | 5 | 0.3 | |
Perspective | |||||
Patient | 2 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.0 | < 0.001 |
Physician/individual | 135 | 27.9 | 1083 | 60.6 | |
Friend/family | 1 | 0.2 | 2 | 0.1 | |
Business | 56 | 11.6 | 128 | 7.2 | |
Professional organization | 290 | 59.9 | 575 | 32.2 | |
Content | |||||
Education | 69 | 14.3 | 417 | 23.3 | < 0.001 |
Advertisement | 90 | 18.6 | 337 | 18.8 | |
Public image | 248 | 51.2 | 738 | 41.3 | |
Research | 18 | 3.7 | 281 | 15.7 | |
News | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 0.2 | |
Personal experience | 59 | 12.2 | 12 | 0.7 | |
Visibility | |||||
#hashtags/post | 11.4 | 2.8 | |||
Popularity | |||||
Likes/post | 488.8 | 9.7 | |||
Retweets/post | 4.3 | ||||
Replies/post | 0.4 |