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Table 7 Tweets of the top 25 promoting and refuting influencers (of 132) sorted by descending engagement scores where engagement scores were > 0. Row values of SumReach and SumEngagement are the total potential reach and engagement respectively for all posts by that author. Totals at the bottom of the table are for all 132 authors having an engagement score of > 0 (row data for authors ranked 26–66 are not shown)

From: Misinformation about spinal manipulation and boosting immunity: an analysis of Twitter activity during the COVID-19 crisis

Promoting (25 of 66)

Refuting (25 of 66)

Rank

Count

SumReach

SumEngagement

Rank

Count

SumReach

SumEngagement

1

1

53,525

1712

1

9

483,032

1422

2

1

3099

741

2

1

16,078

369

3

1

31,796

165

3

2

93,324

276

4

1

1,133,212

141

4

30

88,888

257

5

1

1642

99

5

1

211

157

6

1

48,991

98

6

1

19,188

139

7

1

464

84

7

3

11,780

118

8

1

18,230

28

8

1

2,878,804

73

9

1

3714

23

9

1

8731

69

10

1

77

19

10

1

188,258

59

11

1

3390

17

11

1

16,910

58

12

1

727

17

12

1

11,531

49

13

1

7487

11

13

1

7334

49

14

1

127

11

14

1

847

46

15

1

913

10

15

1

3106

45

16

1

721

8

16

18

3904

32

17

1

7380

7

17

1

24,573

31

18

1

2773

7

18

3

9745

30

19

1

2074

7

19

2

4110

25

20

1

775

7

20

1

2175

24

21

1

68

6

21

1

6710

21

22

1

34

6

22

1

4100

15

23

1

3

6

23

3

3994

15

24

1

346

5

24

1

17,692

14

25

1

317

5

25

1

924

13