Table 2.
Characteristics of the posts and their microbloggers under different categories.
| Categories | Queries (N=466) |
Misleading messages (N=341) |
Refuting messages (N=508) |
Other messages (N=365) |
Chi-square (degrees of freedom) |
P value |
| Mean rank of retweets | 762.8 | 1050.1 | 852.3 | 727.4 | 137.1 (3) | <.001 |
| Mean rank of comments | 907.1 | 793.8 | 696.6 | 999.5 | 124.2 (3) | <.001 |
| Mean rank of microbloggers’ follower number | 875.3 | 637.7 | 971.7 | 971.7 | 101.3 (3) | <.001 |
| Mean rank of microbloggers’ previous post number | 843.7 | 651.0 | 968.1 | 835.9 | 87.3 (3) | <.001 |