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. 2022 Nov 21:1–17. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s10588-022-09371-2

Table 3.

Social media usage patterns across the three user classes

All users Military/Veteran Patriot QAnon
Avg. echos by users 6.33 ± 15.49 2.05 ± 6.92 2.65 ± 6.96 2.65 ± 6.88
Avg. users echoed 13.35 ± 736.96 18.81 ± 203.26 20.31 ± 242.05 38.66 ± 518.36
Avg. posts per user with a mention 0.09 ± 0.8 0.16 ± 0.9 0.10 ± 0.49 0.16 ± 0.86
Avg. posts per user with a hashtag 0.20 ± 1.14 0.24 ± 0.84 0.34 ± 1.27 0.34 ± 1.2
Avg. posts per user with a URL 0.73 ± 2.83 0.87 ± 2.46 0.91 ± 2.89 1.18 ± 4.64
Avg. posts per user with media 0.47 ± 2.02 0.88 ± 2.77 0.62 ± 1.61 1.02 ± 3.24
Avg. comments received per post 4.28 ± 195.77 3.66 ± 26.24 3.07 ± 24.27 6.96 ± 103.20
Avg. upvotes received per post 29.53 ± 1416.6 28.57 ± 213.84 32.81 ± 329.84 67.93 ± 874.82
Avg. impressions received per post 4312.42 ±  241116 3946.72 ±  36358 3002.06 ±  29649 6666.75 ±  76551
Mode impressions received per post 10 11 24 12

Most users have very few echos and use very few (or none) social media artifacts, like hashtags or mentions. Users that identify with QAnon terms use more social media artifacts and see greater engagement