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Table 2 Characteristics of Twitter users tweeting about breast cancer during breast cancer awareness month

From: Using Twitter for breast cancer prevention: an analysis of breast cancer awareness month

  

Organizations

Individuals

Celebrities

All users

(N = 52,109)

(N = 743,673)

(N = 2,045)

(N = 797,827)

Number of Twitter followers

 

217,128,894

433,701,544

465,013,040

1,115,843,478

 

Mean

4,166

583

227,390

1,398

 

Median

286

190

50,531

194

Number of other Twitter users they are following

 

46,054,231

315,152,760

12,729,206

373,936,197

 

Mean

883

423

6,224

468

 

Median

271

216

418

218

Number of BCAM tweets

 

144,886

1,202,132

4,805

1,351,823

 

Mean

2.78

1.62

2.35

1.69

 

Median

1

1

1

1

Number of lifetime tweets*

 

356,490,826

5,448,8247,18

25,591,726

5,830,907,270

 

Mean

6,841

7,326

12,514

7,308

 

Median

1,692

2,584

5,822

2,528

BCAM impressions

 

764,914,959

1,005,051,671

1,258,484,973

3,028,451,603

 

Mean

14,679

1,351

615,396

3,795

 

Median

404

225

73,503

232

  1. * Total number of tweets (about any topic) users have posted to date when data were collected.