Table 2 Data collected from Twitter. Top panel: random sample of the about 46M followers of the NYT. Bottom panel: followers of the other media described in the text.
@nytimes | Total collected users | 8’151’587 |
Total collected tweets | 502’647’015 | |
Number of tweets with # | 83’237’523 | |
Number of distinct # | 12’937’293 | |
Number of users quoting/rt/reply | 226’630 | |
Other media | Total collected users | 1’771’170 |
Total collected tweets | 96’551’331 |
