Table 1.
The characteristics of each community, specifying the proportion of authors, initiators (i.e.: users writing a tweet including one of the words from our search query), and sources & responders (i.e.: tweets that were retrieved in the context of the debate, such as the original messages retweeted by others and tweets that were replied to). The engagement column expresses the proportion of users from each community actively engaged in the vaccination debate. The percentages in the ‘totals’ row, express the proportions in the larger network.
| Total |
Authors |
Initiators |
Sources & Responders |
Engagement | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| Dutch Media | 45,177 | 37.4% | 154 | 6.2% | 115 | 6.9% | 39 | 4.7% | 0.3% |
| Health | 21,974 | 18.2% | 437 | 17.5% | 384 | 22% | 53 | 6.4% | 2% |
| Writers & Journalists | 18,952 | 15.7% | 689 | 27.5% | 553 | 33.1% | 136 | 16.4% | 3.6% |
| Anti-Establishment | 18,055 | 15% | 512 | 20.5% | 264 | 15.8% | 248 | 30% | 2.8% |
| Flemish Media | 10,498 | 8.7% | 230 | 9.2% | 183 | 10.9% | 47 | 5.7% | 2.2% |
| Farmers & vets | 3026 | 2.5% | 115 | 4.6% | 97 | 5.8% | 18 | 2.2% | 3.8% |
| Global Pro-Vaxx | 2971 | 2.5% | 363 | 14.5% | 76 | 4.5% | 287 | 34.6% | 12.2% |
| Total | 120,653 | 2,500 | 1672 | 828 | 2.1% | ||||