Men accounted for a substantially larger proportion of verified physician Twitter accounts and had more than three times as many followers as women with verified physician accounts, according to recent data.
Twitter has grown in popularity, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, among physicians, who use the platform to interact with colleagues, strengthen professional developments and disseminate scientific information to the public, according to Shivani Majmudar, MSJ, a first-year medical student at the University of Illinois College of Medicine.
“However, social media is only as