Table 1

Descriptive tweet and user account analysis

Pre-COVID vaccine datasetPost-COVID vaccine dataset
Panel 1: Tweet Characteristics
No. of Tweets6,380545,258
No. of Original Tweetsa2,454114,669
No. of Retweets372366,298
No. of Replies3,55464,291
Panel 2: User Account Characteristics
No. of Distinct Users3,154327,067
No. of Verified Users573,674
Avg. Tweets per User2.021.67
Avg. User Activity2.021.49
Avg. User Visibility1.021.14

Note(s): Tweets are neither replies (“@”) nor retweets

Source(s): Authors’ own work

or Create an Account

Close subscription notice
Close access options