Social media growth of orthopaedic surgery residency programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Table 1 Total number of tweets per year

Year	Tweets by orthopaedic surgery programs
2011	127
2019	8195
2020	10377
2021	5270

Table 2 Orthopaedic surgery residency program twitter accounts

	Median	IQR
Number of tweets	103.5	[32.5-563.0]
Number of followers	474.5	[205.0-796.5]
Number following	152.5	[54.5-431.75]
Number of likes	84.5	[22.25-525.75]

IQR: Interquartile range.

Table 3 Instagram accounts

	Number of accounts (%)	Created after March 1, 2020 (%)	Residency run accounts (%)	Website link in bio
Instagram accounts	115 (57.2)	89 (77.4)	101 (87.8)	90 (78.3)

Out of 201 identified orthopaedic surgery residency programs.

Table 4 Instagram data

	Mean
Number of followers	1089.5
Number of posts	58.9