Table 2.

March 5, 2015 (12:00 PM to 1:15 PM Central Time) #LiveFitNOLA Twitter chat network characteristics.

Network characteristics	Total number of network membersa, N=135 Total number of connectionsb, N=474
Degreec, mean (SD)	8 (16)
Out degreed, mean (SD)	4 (9)
In degreee, mean (SD)	4 (7)

^aNetwork members include 66 #LiveFitNOLA Twitter chat participants and 69 Twitter users mentioned during the chat.

^bNumber of communications: The number of mentions during the #LiveFitNOLA Twitter chat ie, the total number of times a Twitter user mentions another user by including their @username in a tweet, whether by quoting a tweet, retweeting (repeating another user’s tweet), or directly addressing another user.

^cDegree: Number of undirected communications between a source and a target Twitter user within the network regardless of the direction of the communication.

^dOut degree: Number of outgoing communications a source Twitter user sent to other Twitter users within the network.

^eIn degree: Number of incoming communications a target Twitter user received from other Twitter users within the network.