2020
DOI: 10.2196/19273
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Tracking Social Media Discourse About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development of a Public Coronavirus Twitter Data Set

Abstract: Background At the time of this writing, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak has already put tremendous strain on many countries' citizens, resources, and economies around the world. Social distancing measures, travel bans, self-quarantines, and business closures are changing the very fabric of societies worldwide. With people forced out of public spaces, much of the conversation about these phenomena now occurs online on social media platforms like Twitter. … Show more

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“…First, we relied on the COVID-19 Twitter data set at IEEE Dataport [ 21 ], which contained COVID-19–related tweets from March 20, 2020. Second, we used a Twitter data set posted in GitHub [ 22 ] that contained COVID-19–related tweets posted since January 21, 2020. Both these data sets are publicly available and provide a list of tweet IDs for all tweets related to COVID-19.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…First, we relied on the COVID-19 Twitter data set at IEEE Dataport [ 21 ], which contained COVID-19–related tweets from March 20, 2020. Second, we used a Twitter data set posted in GitHub [ 22 ] that contained COVID-19–related tweets posted since January 21, 2020. Both these data sets are publicly available and provide a list of tweet IDs for all tweets related to COVID-19.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Globally, Twitter has grown to be an important arena also for science communication [e.g. Jahng and Lee, 2018], and particularly during the COVID-19 crisis it has provided researchers, politicians and citizens all over the world an important platform for sharing and discussing information on various aspects of the pandemic [Chen, Lerman and Ferrara, 2020]. It is used, for example, to disseminate pre-prints and early versions of COVID-19 studies as well as evaluating them.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The use of Twitter during the COVID-19 crisis has many advantages, including immediate communication between people, organizations, and governments, and the rapidity of providing information to people (Abd-Alrazaq et al, 2020;Aguilar-Gallegos et al, 2020;Chen et al, 2020b;Jimenez-Sotomayor et al, 2020;Kudchadkar & Carroll, 2020;Mackey et al, 2020;Thelwall & Levitt, 2020). Moreover, the data available on Twitter is used as a source for identifying geographical areas at risk and the outbreak of COVID-19 (Bisanzio et al, 2020;Klein et al, 2020;Mackey et al, 2020;Rufai & Bunce, 2020).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Twitter or Facebook) to build time-stamped geo-located data and communicate information regarding the details of their surroundings (Chae et al, 2014). Platforms such as Twitter are vital to the social and technological system that allows people to be connected even throughout the emergencies (Chen et al, 2020b).…”
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