Table 1.
Food security tweet descriptive data over the study period (2019 to 2021; N=38,070).
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Total, n (%) | 2019 (n=10,562), n (%) | 2020 (n=15,302), n (%) | 2021 (n=12,206), n (%) | |
| Tweet typea | |||||
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Original tweet | 4121 (10.82) | 1218 (11.53) | 1612 (10.53) | 1291 (10.58) |
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Retweet | 28,062 (73.71) | 7800 (73.85) | 11,268 (73.64) | 8994 (73.69) |
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Reply | 3918 (10.29) | 954 (9.03) | 1595 (10.42) | 1369 (11.22) |
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Quote | 1969 (5.17) | 590 (5.59) | 827 (5.4) | 552 (4.52) |
| Tweet formata | |||||
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Text only | 34,230 (89.91) | 9199 (87.1) | 13,851 (90.52) | 11,180 (91.59) |
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Photo | 3747 (9.84) | 1336 (12.65) | 1416 (9.25) | 995 (8.15) |
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Animated GIF | 66 (0.17) | 17 (0.16) | 33 (0.22) | 16 (0.13) |
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Video | 2 (0.01) | 10 (0.09) | 2 (0.01) | 15 (0.1) |
| Twitter user verificationa | |||||
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Verified | 1768 (4.64) | 427 (4.04) | 822 (5.37) | 519 (4.25) |
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Not verified | 36,302 (95.36) | 10,135 (95.96) | 14,480 (94.63) | 11,687 (95.75) |
| Authenticitya | |||||
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Suspected bot account | 3175 (8.34) | 643 (6.09) | 1153 (7.53) | 1379 (11.3) |
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Not suspected bot account | 34,895 (91.66) | 9919 (93.91) | 14,149 (92.47) | 10,827 (88.7) |
aChi-square test of independence significant at P<.001 for differences between the years.