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Emergency Medicine Influencers’ Twitter Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed-methods Analysis Results

Tweets were split almost evenly between original tweets and quote tweets
median of 16 tweets per user
engagement: median of 25 likes per tweet and 7 retweets per tweet
most tweets were either positive (34.6%) or neutral (31%)
15% of tweets were negative
most tweets focused on the present (76.7%)
34.4% of tweets shared links to news outlets talking about testing, cases, or other local stories
28.9% had information about patient care, protocols, or linked to research publications
18.1% provided advice or resources related to COVID-19
16.8% contained personal stories related to the pandemic
12.3% were political or related to government action