Table 1.
Descriptive statistics showing relevant aspects of the data sources.
| derstandard.at | Student platform | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| # Posts | 1,827,576 | 2,001,420 | 158,022 |
| Mean # Posts per day | 21,007 | 23,005 | 1,816 |
| # Unique users | 19,263 | 594,500 | NA |
| Fraction posemo | 0.333 | 0.435 | 0.383 |
| Fraction anxiety | 0.036 | 0.031 | 0.032 |
| Fraction anger | 0.062 | 0.057 | 0.062 |
| Fraction sad | 0.083 | 0.064 | 0.09 |
| Fraction social | 0.561 | 0.559 | 0.592 |
| Fraction prosocial | 0.105 | 0.191 | 0.099 |
Numbers refer to the period from 9 March to 3 June 2020 (87 days). The total number of Twitter users in Austria in January 2019 is taken from the report of DataReportal (2019). Fractions refer to the number of posts containing at least one term from the relevant dictionary category in LIWC divided by the total number of posts.