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. 2022 Mar 30;9(3):e33685. doi: 10.2196/33685

Table 1.

Summary statistics of the mental health n-gram data set compared with the general Twitter n-gram data set on 3 individual days. The dates shown correspond to several Bell Let’s Talk Day events occurring between 2010 and 2021. Bell Let’s Talk Day is an annual fundraising and awareness campaign in Canada that coincides with the annual peak in conversation regarding mental health. Unique 1-grams enumerate the set of distinct words found in tweets on these dates, reflecting roughly 10% of all tweets. The Total 1-grams column shows the sum of the counts of each unique 1-gram, and the Total 1-grams (no retweets) column shows the sum of the counts of 1-grams in tweets, not including any messages that were retweeted.


Unique 1-grams Total 1-grams Total 1-grams (no retweets)
February 8, 2012

Mental health 3.0×103 3.0×104 9.3×103

General 1.7×107 3.1×108 2.2×108
January 21, 2014

Mental health 1.6×103 2.3×104 1.5×105

General 2.4×107 4.9×108 2.9×108
January 31, 2018

Mental health 4.9×104 4.4×106 2.6×105

General 2.1×107 5.4×108 1.6×108