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Table 5 List of covariates

From: Psychology and morality of political extremists: evidence from Twitter language analysis of alt-right and Antifa

Name

Description

Tweet count

Number of tweets in the past three months

Mention count

Number of users mentions in the past three months

Retweet count

Number of retweets in the past three months

Activity frequency

Average inter-event days between user’s activity

Followers count

Number of extant followers

Friends count

Number of extant friends

Favorites counts

Total number of times a user favorited others’ post

Tenure

Days since creation of an account

Profile picture

Weather a user has a profile picture

Tweet topics

Variables indicating the ratio of users’ tweets about a given topic