Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of the five MERS-related Twitter corpora.
| Number of tweets (N) | Number of unique user | Median number of posts per user (IQR) | Mean number of posts per user | Retweets (% of N) | Posts containing hashtags (% of N) | Number of unique hashtags | Median number of posts per hashtag (IQR) | Mean number of posts per hashtag | Posts containing URLs (% of N) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Korean | 21,823 | 14,646 | 1 (1, 1) | 1.49 | 17,104 (78) | 2791 (18) | 1032 | 1 (1, 3.75) | 2.7 | 9949 (46) |
| English | 4024 | 3469 | 1 (1, 1) | 1.16 | 1612 (40) | 1212 (30) | 593 | 1 (1, 2) | 2.0 | 3136 (78) |
| Thai | 2084 | 1991 | 1 (1, 1) | 1.05 | 2008 (96) | 1107 (53) | 97 | 1 (1, 4.25) | 11.4 | 347 (17) |
| Japanese | 1334 | 1117 | 1 (1, 1) | 1.19 | 693 (52) | 424 (32) | 291 | 1 (1, 2) | 1.5 | 1086 (81) |
| Indonesian | 1256 | 956 | 1 (1, 1) | 1.31 | 98 (8) | 215 (17) | 143 | 1 (1, 2) | 1.5 | 1142 (91) |
IQR: interquartile range. We present the first quartile and the third quartile here.