Table 3.

Statistics of the datasets

Statistic	Twitter15	Twitter16
# of posts	331612	204820
# of True rumors	374	205
# of False rumors	370	205
# of Unverified rumors	374	203
# of Nonrumors	372	205
# of events	1490	818
Avg. time length/event	1,337 Hours	848 Hours
Avg. # of posts/event	223	251
Max # of posts/event	1768	2765
Min # of posts/event	55	81