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Table 1 Facebook and Twitter metrics

From: The use of social networking platforms for sexual health promotion: identifying key strategies for successful user engagement

Categories

Metrics

Reach

Facebook: Number of total Facebook page ‘likes’ (users)

Twitter: Number of followers (users)

Interaction

Facebook:

i. Number of comments made on posts

ii. Number of ‘likes’ of posts and of comments

Twitter:

i. Number of ‘retweets’ by users (both of host tweets - ‘first degree retweets’, and of host retweets - ‘second degree retweets’)

ii. Number of ‘replies’ by users

iii. Number of ‘mentions’ by users