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Table 1 List of examined factors

From: Co-evolutionary dynamics in social networks: a case study of Twitter

Factor

Description

Odds ratio

95 % CI

Structural features

   

|F(S)|

Number of followers of S

1.000∗∗∗

[1.000,1.000]

|F ′(S)|

Number of followees of S

0.999∗∗∗

[0.999,0.999]

AGE(S)

Number of days since S joined Twitter

0.998∗∗∗

[0.998,0.998]

S→L

Reciprocity: whether the Speaker was following the Listener at the time of the TR event

27.344∗∗∗

[25.663,29.136]

Informational features

   

|ST(S)|

Total number of tweets of S

1.000∗∗∗

[1.000,1.000]

A rate(S)

Rate of S tweets per day

0.989∗∗∗

[0.988,0.991]

Tweets(S,L,Δ)

Number of distinct tweets of S received by L during period Δ

2.010∗∗∗

[1.781,2.270]

Retweets(S,L,Δ)

Number of distinct retweets of S received by L during period Δ

1.603∗∗∗

[1.371,1.873]

Repeaters(S,L,Δ)

Number of Repeaters R that L received tweets of S from during period Δ

2.076∗∗∗

[1.889,2.282]

  1. ∗ p < 0.1; ∗∗ p < 0.05; ∗∗∗ p < 0.01