Table 1.
General user and tweet metadata over the 8-month data collection period.
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| Metric | Superuser | Contributor | Lurker | Superuser | Contributor | Lurker | |
| User count, n | 1718 | 16,947 | 145,246 | 44 | 394 | 3945 | |
| Overall tweets, % | 25.5 | 25.2 | 49.3 | 28.7 | 35.2 | 36.1 | |
| Tweets per user, mean (SD) | 49.8 (84.0) | 5.0 (2.7) | 1.1 (0.3) | 101.7 (58.7) | 13.9 (9.9) | 1.4 (0.9) | |
aTweets: n=334,907; tweets per user: mean 2.0, SD 10.0; users: n=163,911.
bTweets: n=15,602; tweets per user: mean 3.6, SD 3.6; users: n=4383.