Table 1 Median of the delay \(\Delta t\) in minutes for different sections and different types of interactions shown for the eleven largest sections sorted by decreasing number of articles assigned to the sections.

From: Understanding who talks about what: comparison between the information treatment in traditional media and online discussions

Section

\({\Delta t_{\textrm{RT}}}\)

\({\Delta t_{\textrm{reply}}}\)

\({\Delta t_{\textrm{quote}}}\)

\({\Delta t_{\textrm{link}}}\)

U.S.

81.9(5)

52.3(6)

71.0(9)

643(3)

World

90.5(9)

45.9(7)

73.4(17)

827(6)

Opinion

68(3)

38(2)

83(7)

952(4)

Arts

53(2)

37(2)

46(2)

1526(18)

Business Day

75(1)

49(1)

89(4)

814(7)

Sports

42(2)

27(2)

44(4)

713(15)

New York

85(1)

45(1)

73(2)

597(6)

Books

45(2)

36(3)

40(5)

1646(28)

Style

103(5)

50(3)

107(7)

1065(19)

Movies

53(3)

34(2)

52(4)

1259(35)

Real Estate

29(4)

40(7)

62(20)

1735(38)

All articles

76.7(3)

47.0(3)

67.8(5)

858(2)

  1. Despite the shape of the distribution being very similar (see Supplementary Material), the median delay fluctuates by more than a factor of two depending on the section. The number in parentheses specifies the standard error in units of the least significant digit, obtained via bootstrap resampling51.