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Table 3 Average total number of retweets received by users of discursive communities of Fig. 5. In some communities, bots or suspended users are able to make themselves more credible and be retweeted much more: the bots of the pro-Trump community, for instance, are retweeted much more than in the other communities, while the suspended users of pro- and anti-Brexit communities get more attention than the others

From: Brexit and bots: characterizing the behaviour of automated accounts on Twitter during the UK election

#

Type

Average number of retweets received

Verified

Genuine

Bots

Suspended

1

anti-Brexit

1255.91

21.28

3.52

11.9

2

pro-Brexit

2924.08

23.14

5.71

19.53

3

pro-Trump

1777.63

4.34

14.59

3.5

4

Labour

3051.15

8.77

0.29

3.88

5

Scottish

1387.31

12.92

0.52

7.35

6

News

127.83

0.54

0.49

0.17

7

Indian

247.1

4.5

2.66

0.29

8

Irish

108.91

0.56

0.17

0.06