Table 3.
Metrics for users who tweet accurate information versus users who tweet inaccurate information.
| Metric | Description | Trustworthy tweets, median (SD) | Untrustworthy tweets, median (SD) | P valuea |
| F3 | Followees count | 75.5 (2517) | 891 (12,952) | <.001 |
| FT2 | Number of times author’s tweets are favorited (ie, favorite-author tags) | 281.5 (76,054) | 46 (2454) | .01 |
| RMH5 | Unique hashtag count in tweets that were retweeted by the author | 6 (24.2) | 1 (26.6) | .06 |
| OT3 | Number of hashtags in the author‘s tweets | 18 (144.4) | 6 (64.5) | .09 |
| RM1 | Number of retweeted tweets by the author where the user mentioned other users | 20 (76.3) | 13 (49.7) | .09 |
| FT6 | Number of original tweets posted by the author that are favorited | 55 (60.5) | 26 (58.7) | .11 |
| SSI | Ratio of original tweets posted by the author to tweets retweeted by the author | 4.51 (61.6) | 8.94 (93.8) | .11 |
| MH5 | Unique keyword count in hashtags set in original tweets posted by the author | 7 (46.1) | 3 (22.9) | .14 |
| RP1 | Number of reply-to tweets posted by the author | 21 (47) | 3 (54.1) | .20 |
| RMM5 | Unique mentions in retweeted tweets by the author | 7 (26.1) | 4 (24) | .43 |
| M1 | Number of tweets where the author mentioned other users | 18.5 (61.6) | 10 (66.6) | .51 |
| FT1 | Number of tweets favorited by the author | 179 (1202.6) | 83 (14,073) | .84 |
aP values were calculated using the Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon (MWW) test with P≤.05 indicating statistical significance.