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We used these publicly documented cases to analyze post-intervention Twitter-reported outcomes and compared these outcomes with the data provided in the gold standard literature.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Two reviewers performed a search of Twitter for tweeted cases of acute ischemic strokes treated with mechanical thrombectomy. Data were abstracted from each tweet regarding baseline characteristics and outcomes. Twitter-reported outcomes were compared with the Highly Effective Reperfusion Evaluated in Multiple Endovascular Stroke (HERMES) trial individual patient meta-analysis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>When comparing the tweeted results to HERMES, tweeted cases had a higher post-intervention rate of modified Thrombolysis In Cerebral Infarction (mTICI) scale score of 2c\/3 (94% vs 71%, respectively; p&lt;0.0001) and rate of National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score \u22642 (81% vs 21%, respectively; p&lt;0.0001). There were no reported complications; thus, tweeted cases also had significantly lower rates of complications, including symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage (0% vs 4.4%, respectively; p&lt;0.0001), type 2 parenchymal hemorrhage (0% vs 5.1%, respectively; p&lt;0.0001), and mortality (0% vs 15.3%, respectively; p&lt;0.0001).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>There is a significant difference between social media and reality even within the \u2018MedTwitter\u2019 sphere, which is likely due to a strong publication bias in Twitter-reported cases. 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