University of California, Berkeley

- 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

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

Leibowitz, M. K., Scudder, M. R., McCabe, M., Chan, J. L., Klein, M. R., Trueger, N. S., & McCarthy, D. M. (2021). Emergency Medicine Influencers’ Twitter Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed-methods Analysis. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5bq5n5tf 

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