Antibiotic-treated acute appendicitis—reception in social media

Social media, especially Twitter®, is becoming increasingly important for medical topics. Systematic analyses of the content of these tweets are rare. To date, no analysis of the reception of antibiotic/non-operative-treated acute appendicitis on Twitter® has been performed. Tweets with the content “appendicitis,” “appendix,” and “appendectomy” from December 31, 2010, to September 27, 2017, were recorded. Further analysis was performed by...