Table 1

Topics (ranked by most prevalent first)

Topic 8HPROB: live, video, march, majorityfm, solidar, oakfosho, squar, join
FREX: majorityfm, solidar, mayday, mgs, show, march, strike, dontbeaputz
Topic 17HPROB: polic, protest, park, theother, cop, thinkprogress, nypd, news
FREX: spray, pepper, riot, theother, cop, tear, polic, shot
Topic 4HPROB: occupi, photo, wall, post, protest, osf, opdx, movement
FREX: img, post, photo, newyorkc, osf, occupi, paul, opdx
Topic 18HPROB: thenewd, american, tax, million, vote, economi, ndaa, arrest
FREX: million, crash, ndaa, class, bill, rais, tax, bush
Topic 1HPROB: ronpaul, teaparti, tcot, ronpaulsvoic, amp, state, tlot, freedom
FREX: found, form, forc, state, speech, accept, self, seen
Topic 12HPROB: peopl, ronpaul, govern, liberti, war, teaparti, ronpaulsvoic, constitut
FREX: peopl, solv, constitut, grand, voic, reflect, tire, protect
Topic 3HPROB: temp, forecast, night, high, low, rain, topprog, tcot
FREX: temp, forecast, tpp, sunni, ocra, rain, sgp, high
Topic 21HPROB: nypd, ogundamisi, dustinslaught, protest, offic, shut, just, nigerian
FREX: ogundamisi, flash, nigeria, book, lago, gej, remov, nigerian
Topic 6HPROB: can, one, come, peac, let, make, way, bridg
FREX: side, bring, bridg, togeth, possibl, stay, mass, let
Topic 23HPROB: citizenradio, bank, america, year, last, billion, senatorsand, plan
FREX: though, sach, goldman, refund, bank, citizenradio, berni, profi
Topic 19HPROB: thenewd, don, job, tell, fight, parti, republican, gop
FREX: hate, handout, everywher, parti, liber, don, insid, gopwaronwomen
Topic 13HPROB: need, pleas, help, thank, violenc, rememb, follow, tweet
FREX: pleas, rememb, tweet, donat, help, twitter, word, nonviol
Topic 7HPROB: arrest, report, month, york, chicago, put, old, boston
FREX: chicago, nato, happi, month, citibank, john, dispatch, report
Topic 24HPROB: want, big, think, good, thing, corrupt, read, person
FREX: big, institut, corrupt, person, contact, good, want, daddi
Topic 9HPROB: get, corpor, stop, just, chang, tri, sign, start
FREX: tri, corpor, kpop, cours, sign, yes, get, chang
Topic 14HPROB: today, polit, money, ronpaul, feder, spend, home, politician
FREX: spend, polit, reddit, home, reserv, lobbyist, visit, run
Topic 22HPROB: time, action, nation, everi, continu, alway, destroy, find
FREX: action, alway, direct, enough, time, short, continu, everi
Topic 10HPROB: day, see, end, martin, king, luther, demand, must
FREX: king, luther, see, martin, demand, care, begin, day
Topic 11HPROB: creat, free, countri, without, presid, ronpaul, major, privat
FREX: jail, major, privat, market, without, documentari, creat, went
Topic 16HPROB: mmflint, give, secur, never, work, realli, massiv, dear
FREX: massiv, pls, discuss, answer, mmflint, fbi, investig, homeland
Topic 15HPROB: law, order, econom, court, social, caus, rule, lie
FREX: lie, judg, rule, order, suprem, court, law, final
Topic 20HPROB: livestream, right, viewer, watch, tcoswnuywco, live, check, team
FREX: livestream, viewer, watch, tcoswnuywco, videostream, coverag, check, team
Topic 5HPROB: love, man, govt, sopa, monsanto, antisec, wikileak
FREX: govt, monsanto, wikileak, antisec, learn, feel, eff, beauti
Topic 2HPROB: right, group, front, away, camp, brooklyn, better, left
FREX: shall, front, left, tcoswnqqwt, feed, grant, everyth, done
Topic 25HPROB: will, take, say, back, just, media, occup, like
FREX: take, say, rise, will, school, back, occup, amaz

Note(s): Table shows the high-probability (HPROB) and frequent-and-exclusive (FREX) words associated with each topic (Roberts et al., 2014a, b). The topics in this and following tables are sorted and ranked from the most to the least prevalent topic within the corpus of 1.4 M bot tweets

Source(s): Authors' own work

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