Table 1

Characteristics of influencer and regular user tweets

Tweet typeTotalInfluencer tweets (≥1000 followers)Regular user tweets (<1000 followers)
LCC tweets4 372 2931 035 515 (23%)3 336 778 (77%)
Users1 849 322318 893 (17%)1 530 429 (83%)
Reach2 379 854 2361 868 926 085 (79%)510 928 151 (21%)
Mentions
 Brands300 813 (7%)88 256 (9%)212 557 (6%)
 Promotions113 637 (3%)33 845 (3%)79 792 (2%)
 Marijuana3 636 176 (83%)817 732 (79%)2 818 444 (85%)
 Retweets2 121 928 (49%)444 311 (43%)1 677 617 (50%)
 Memes1 276 834 (29%)232 897 (23%)1 043 937 (31%)
  • LCC, little cigar and cigarillo.