Table 2 Features of Twitter usea among the people who got lost due to dementia
From: How can we better use Twitter to find a person who got lost due to dementia?
Total No. (%) | Average no. (SD) per person who got lost | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
People with dementia who can be found | Yes | No | p-valueb | Yes | No | p-valuec |
Types of Twitter users: | ||||||
No. of tweet-writers | 183 | 44 | 4.6 (5.0) | 3.1 (3.6) | 0.258 | |
From police departments | 15 (8.2%) | 1 (2.3%) | 0.294 | 0.4 (0.5) | 0.1 (0.3) | 0.009 |
From media organisations | 60 (32.8%) | 10 (22.7%) | 0.265 | 1.5 (1.7) | 0.7 (1.1) | 0.051 |
No. of retweeters | 1807 | 172 | 45.2 (148.8) | 12.3 (18.3) | 0.178 | |
From police departments | 7 (0.4%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0.884 | 0.2 (0.5) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.003 |
From media organisations | 6 (0.3%) | 2 (1.2%) | 0.312 | 0.2 (0.4) | 0.1 (0.4) | 0.950 |
No. of followers, in thousands | 12,338 | 963 | 308.4 (749.7) | 68.8 (96.4) | 0.031 d | |
From police departments | 388 (3.1%) | 9.3 (1.0%) | <0.001 | 3.5 (4.7) | 0.7 (2.4) | 0.010 |
From media organisations | 6314 (51.2%) | 474 (49.2%) | 0.256 | 8.9 (4.8) | 4.5 (5.5) | 0.013 |
Types of Twitter posts: | ||||||
No. of original tweets | 199 | 50 | 5.0 (5.4) | 3.6 (3.7) | 0.292 | |
From police departments | 19 (9.5%) | 1 (2.0%) | 0.143 | 0.5 (0.8) | 0.1 (0.3) | 0.005 |
From media organisations | 66 (33.2%) | 10 (20.0%) | 0.102 | 1.6 (1.9) | 0.7 (1.1) | 0.031 |
Tweets with photos | 175 (88.0%) | 37 (74.0%) | 0.024 | 4.4 (5.3) | 2.6 (3.5) | 0.177 |
Tweets with website links | 190 (95.5%) | 44 (88.0%) | 0.098 | 4.8 (5.4) | 3.1 (3.7) | 0.224 |
Tweets with hashtags | 44 (22.1%) | 13 (26.0%) | 0.691 | 1.1 (1.6) | 0.9 (1.3) | 0.696 |
Average length of tweets (no. of words) | 15.0 (3.8) | 17.1 (4.6) | 0.136 | |||
No. of retweets | 1828 | 173 | 45.7 (150.1) | 12.4 (18.4) | 0.176 | |
Retweets from police departments | 8 (0.4%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0.809 | 0.2 (0.6) | 0 (0.0) | 0.044 |
Retweets from media organisations | 6 (0.3%) | 2 (1.2%) | 0.308 | 0.2 (0.4) | 0.1 (0.4) | 0.950 |
No. of retweet / each original tweet | 10.8 (24.8) | 6.1 (9.8) | 0.324 | |||
