Table 2.
Descriptive statistics for Twitter cyberbehaviors.
| Cyberbehaviors | SFBAa (n=61) | GLAb (n=58) | P valuec |
| Mean | Mean | ||
| Account Age, Days (Years) | 1107.8 (3.0) | 1006.2 (2.8) | .49 |
| Total Days Tweeting | 285.5 | 202.6 | .14 |
| Tweets Collected | 965.4 | 590.3 | .21 |
| Max. Tweets Per Day | 15.1 | 16.4 | .87 |
| Average Tweets Per Day | 3.0 | 2.9 | .72 |
| MADd Tweets Per Day | 0.8 | 0.8 | .92 |
| Percentage of Days Tweeting | 25.9 | 24.1 | .34 |
| Percentage of Tweets with Media | 20.4 | 21.0 | .98 |
| Percentage of Tweets with #e | 40.4 | 40.4 | .92 |
| Percentage of Tweets with @f | 26.1 | 27.6 | .54 |
| Percentage of Tweets with RTg | 10.2 | 10.5 | .63 |
| Percentage of Tweets with Hyperlink | 55.9 | 51.8 | .47 |
aSFBA: San Francisco Bay Area.
bGLA: Greater Los Angeles.
cThe P values were calculated with the Wilcoxon rank-sum tests to accommodate for the nonparametric nature of the cyberbehaviors.
dMAD: median absolute deviation.
e#=hashtag.
f@=user mention.
gRT: Retweet.