Table 3.
Summed Tweet and Tweet thread frequency (and percentages) by message function and rural and urban accountsa, January 1st, 2020 to June 30th, 2020.
| Account features |
Tweet message function |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community type | Total followers | Number of accounts | Information | Action | Community | Total Tweets |
| Urban | 266,889 | 16 | 32 (44%) | 25 (35%) | 15 (21%) | 72 |
| Rural | 109,965 | 36 | 40 (23%) | 79 (45%) | 56 (32%) | 175 |
| Total Tweets | 72 | 104 | 71 | 247 | ||
a
Only accounts corresponding to regional and/or local public health Twitter accounts were classified as rural or urban based on Statistics Canada definition of a population centre.