Table 1.

Variable selection in models of retweet and favorite counts with sentiment scores.

Models	Poisson	Negative binomial	Zero-inflated (binomial logit link)	Comments
Variables found significant for retweet counts	“anger,” “anticipation,” “disgust,” “fear,” “joy,” “sadness,” “surprise,” “trust,” “negative,” “positive”	“disgust,” “joy,” “sadness,” “surprise,” “trust,” “negative,” “positive”	“anticipation,” “joy,” “sadness,” “trust,” “positive”	Negative binomial model seems to be the best performing model.
AIC	401600	33291	N/A
Variables found significant for favorite counts	“anger,” “anticipation,” “disgust,” “fear,” “joy,” “sadness,” “surprise,” “trust,” “negative,” “positive”	“anger,” “anticipation,” “disgust,” “fear,” “joy,” “sadness,” “surprise,” “trust,” “negative,” “positive”	“positive”	Negative binomial model seems to be the best performing model.
AIC	1462000	57555	N/A

N/A, Not applicable.