Table 1

Overview of the 30 topics of interest for people with or talking about diabetes and their gender and type of diabetes distributions

No.	Topic label	Top words	Gender(%)	DiabetesType(%)	Tweet description
1	Support/Solidarity in diabetes community	happy, birthday, day, #dsma,#t1d, insulin			Happy birthday wishes Affection / Support / Solidarity messages
2	Inspiring relatives living with diabetes	love, t1d, amazing, #t1d, awesome			Inspiring friends and families when living with diabetes or helping to live a better life Pointing to people campaigning for diabetes issues and affordable insulin
3	Sharing hope and encouraging	hope, well, #dsma, get, soon, better			Encouraging people with diabetes Hoping to find a cure for diabetes
4	Diabetes awareness / Support / Donation	help, love, please, us, let, awareness			Supporting each other within the diabetes community Raising awareness for diabetes and its complications Donations to get insulin
5	DSMA* enjoying online support	#dsma, good, :), glad, tonight, love			Friendly exchanges within the DSMA* online community Being thankful for the people’s effort and activity Questions within the DSMA online community
6	Sharing diabetes related stories	good, bad, news, really, know, like			People telling stories about diabetes or diabetes treatment Messages about daily struggle with diabetes
7	T1D hashtags	#t1d, #diabetes, #type1diabetes, love			Mainly short, incoherent messages with several hashtags relating to type one diabetes, such as #t1d, #t1dlife, #t1dmom, or #Dexcom
8	Diabetes care	care, take, health, insulin, one, taking			Talking about diabetes care or mental health with diabetes Indignation about the healthcare system
9	Bloodsugar palette (beauty products)	#bloodsugar, got, palette, excited, love,			“Spam” about the beauty product “Blood Sugar Palette” palette
10	Advocacy for affordable insulin	#insulin4all, insulin, good, thank, love, us			Encouraging people advocating for affordable insulin Talking about healthcare activism
11	Life with and without diabetes	would, love, could, insulin, like, one			Hypothetical life without diabetes Frustration about how people without diabetes poorly understood their conditions
12	Life with type one diabetes	#t1d, #diabetes, love,#type1diabetes			Messages about Dexcom devices Seeking for encouragement Life with type one diabetes
13	Glucose guardian	glucose, guardian, need, love, father			Looking for glucose guardians. This is a gender neutral term for a person who is giving money, often to buy insulin, in exchange for some favor or something in return.
14	Chatting about insulin	love, insulin, #dsma good, glucose, one			Talking about insulin
15	Insulin and insulin pump complications	insulin, pump, love, hope, got, new, feel			Unhappiness about having to manage the insulin pump Insulin had no effect or was bad
16	Diabetes in family	family, runs, friends, know, type, history			Worries about getting diabetes because of family predisposition Family support
17	Diaversary	years, ago, two, type, one, insulin			Celebrating birthday of diabetes diagnosis
18	Day-to-day stories about diabetes	day, today, insulin, glucose, good, last			Day-to-day stories about diabetes or insulin adjustment
19	Confusion between T1D and T2D	type, one, two, good, love, people, feel			Frustration about people’s inability to distinguish between type 1 and type two diabetes
20	Diagnosis	diagnosed,type, old, two, since, year, one			Talking about their own diabetes diagnosis or the one of their child
21	Glycemic instability	glucose, blood, high, sugar, insulin, levels			Difficulty to keep blood sugar levels stable Suffering from low or high blood sugar - Reliefs about keeping blood sugar levels normal
22	Insulin	insulin, good, like, need, people, feel			Talking about expensive insulin and people who cannot afford treatment Insecurity about insulin
23	Diabetes pop star Nick Jonas	nick, jonas, cried, remember, found			Talking about pop star Nick Jonas who has type one diabetes and wrote a song about it
24	Misunderstandings of diabetes	people, know, like, one, understand			Complaining about the public view on diabetes Unclear relationship for many people between food and blood sugar / diabetes
25	Frustration with insulin prices	insulin, afford, cost, cannot, insurance			Frustration with high insulin prices Insurance as elementary factor to get insulin
26	OGTT**	glucose, test, hour, today, tomorrow			Dreading glucose drink and glucose tests (mostly during pregnancy)
27	Parents and diabetes	mom, dad, got, died, insulin, one, bad, lost			Parents-children stories related to diabetes
28	Diabetes Distress	feel, like, hate, sick, really, bad, feeling			Sharing feelings of sadness and depressive symptoms Feeling scared or anxious about insulin use Hate towards own diabetes
29	Diabetic/Insulin Shock	shock, insulin, went, going, coma, would			Going into diabetic shock after eating sweet food Sharing experience of going into insulin shocks
30	Diabetes-related comorbidities	anxiety, depression, pain, neuropathy, heart, cancer			Talking about diabetes-related complications such as depression, anxiety, heart diseases, nerve pain, chronic pain and other health issues

For each topic the following information is provided: the topic label, the most frequent words, gender (M=men, F=women, U=unknown) and type of diabetes (T1=type 1 diabetes, T2=type 2 diabetes, U=unknown) distribution and a tweet description.
DSMA, Diabetes Social Media Advocacy online group; OGTT, oral glucose tolerance test.