Table 5.
Metrics for users who tweeted accurate information versus users whose tweets were retweeted.
| Metric | Description | Retweeted tweets, median (SD) | Unretweeted tweets, median (SD) | P valuea |
| FT2 | Number of times that author’s tweets are favorited | 857.5 (8366) | 25 (121) | <.001 |
| TFF | Ratio of followers to followees (F1/F3) | 81.6 (18,950) | 1.09 (22,728) | <.001 |
| Listed count | Number of lists where the user is member | 29.5 (912.1) | 1 (99) | <.001 |
| RT2 | Number of author’s tweets retweeted by other users | 79.5 (59.8) | 9 (25.5) | <.001 |
| FT6 | Number of original tweets posted by the author that are favorited | 77 (61.5) | 17 (42.3) | <.001 |
| M2 | Number of unique users mentioned by the author | 16 (43.1) | 3 (23.5) | .052 |
| RP1 | Number of reply-to tweets posted by the author | 24.5 (53) | 4 (42.2) | .08 |
| SSI | Ratio of original tweets posted by the author to tweets retweeted by the author | 3.83 (63.4) | 21.11 (87.6) | .11 |
| M1 | Number of tweets where the author mentioned other users | 18.5 (67.4) | 3 (47.6) | .12 |
| RM1 | Number of retweeted tweets by the author where the user mentioned other users | 20 (78.3) | 7 (56.2) | .12 |
| RT1 | Number of tweets that the author retweeted | 19.5 (49.1) | 7 (54.4) | .14 |
| OT3 | Number of hashtags in the author’s tweets | 20 (142.5) | 9 (103) | .26 |
aThe P value was calculated using the Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon (MWW) test with P<.05 indicating statistical significance.