Table 1.
Engagement with and sentiment of popular tweets about Asperger according to the time points when they were posted and the type of information provided.
| Category of engagement | Time point when the tweet was posted | t testa | P value | Type of information provided | P valueb | |||
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Before Musk’s disclosure (n=34), mean (95% CI) | After Musk’s disclosure (n=193), mean (95% CI) |
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Provides information (n=13)c, mean (95% CI) | Neutral tweets (n=210)d, mean (95% CI) | Contains misinformation (n=4), mean (95% CI) |
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| Comments | 254.15 (87.08 to 331.46) | 44.88 (–74.63 to 493.16) | 3.375 | <.001 | 68.77 (–43.36 to 180.93) | 77.96 (30.12 to 125.79) | 9.50 (–0.77 to 19.77) | .81 |
| Retweets | 494.47 (–28.30 to 635.65) | 190.80 (–321.57 to 928.91) | 1.803 | .001 | 146.66 (–47.94 to 340.86) | 246.00 (117.76 to 374.23) | 18.25 (–7.29 to 43.79) | .59 |
| Likes | 7058.00 (1734.96 to 10,443.57) | 969.44 (–4483.23 to 16,661.76) | 2.756 | .001 | 824.00 (–216.54 to 1864.54) | 1980.41 (277.11 to 3683.72) | 124.75 (–26.96 to 276.46) | .26 |
| Sentiment | 0.12 (–1.42 to 1.08) | 0.29 (–1.29 to 0.95) | 0.272 | .22 | –1.46 (–3.20 to 0.28) | 0.38 (–0.09 to 0.84) | 0.00 (–2.60 to 2.60) | .21 |
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bP value obtained from the Kruskal-Wallis test.
cExample of a tweet that provides information: “Not all autistic people (including people with Asperger’s diagnoses) are white, male techie types. Some of us are poets. Some of us are even women.”
dExample of a neutral tweet: “Elon Musk reveals he has Asperger’s syndrome during SNL monologue.”