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Table 3 Tweet types

From: “Show this thread”: policing, disruption and mobilisation through Twitter. An analysis of UK law enforcement tweeting practices during the Covid-19 pandemic

Tweet type:

All stakeholders

Territorial Police forces

All tweets (%)

Covid-19 tweets (%)

Covid-19 crime tweets (%)

All tweets (%)

Covid-19 tweets (%)

Covid-19 crime tweets (%)

Regular tweet

49.4

44.4

50.0

52.0

46.5

51.7

Retweet

26.8

45.7

43.2

23.1

40.7

41.8

Reply

19.1

6.2

2.6

20.1

8.1

2.2

Quote

4.7

3.7

4.2

4.8

4.7

4.3

Total

114,257

8,249

1917

81,710

4729

1160