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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Inf Commun Soc. 2016 Dec 20;21(2):163–173. doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2016.1266374

Table 2.

Summary Twitter Data for Freshmen Students (n=166)

Summary Data
Tweets and retweets Total %
Total Tweets + Retweets 35,945 -
Total Tweets 21,491 59.79%
Total Retweets 14,454 40.21%
Activity by day of the week Total %
Monday 5440 15.13%
Tuesday 5677 15.79%
Wednesday 5640 15.69%
Thursday 5400 15.02%
Friday 4513 12.56%
Saturday 3951 10.99%
Sunday 5324 14.81%
Activity by weekday vs. weekend Total %
Weekdays (Mon–Thu) 22157 61.64%
Weekends (Fri–Sun) 13788 38.36%
Activity by time of day Total %
Morning/Noon (from 7am to 1pm) 7370 20.50%
Afternoon (from 1pm to 7pm) 11069 30.79%
Evening (from 7pm to 2am) 15985 44.47%
Late Night (from 2am to 6am) 1521 4.23%
Length of tweets (# of elements in a tweet) Min Max
Quartile 1 (short tweets) 0 4
Quartile 2 5 8
Quartile 3 9 13
Quartile 4 (long tweets) 14 45
Prevalence of emotions
Emotion Handcoded Rate Predicted Rate
Anger 7.71% 9.90%
Fear 17.04% 12.43%
Love 12.24% 12.24%
Joy 22.09% 18.71%
Neutral 25.75% 19.05%