Table 1 Characteristics of tweets

Tweets

40,628

Users

n = 28,216

Verified Twitter account

3,679

Followers (Sum [1st – 3rd quartile])

47,562 [187–4368]

Posts to date (Sum[1st – 3rd quartile])

49,238 [1,933–32,371]

Type of account

    Individual

17,014 (60.3%)

    Organization

11,202 (39.7%)

Characteristics:

# of Tweets

(%)

    Has reply

2,284

5.6

    Has like

5,817

14.3

    Has retweet

6,548

16.1

    Has been quoted

1,802

4.4

Twitter Source:

    Twitter for Android

11,325

27.8

    Twitter Web App

11,132

27.4

    Twitter for iPhone

10,591

26.0

    Hootsuite Inc.

1,470

3.6

    TweetDeck

720

1.8

    Other Sources

5390

13.4