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Tracking the Twitter attention around the research efforts on the COVID-19 pandemic results - Twitter user characterization

  • 161,390 different Twitter users tweeted or retweeted at least one of the COVID-19-related publications in the dataset
  • Looking at the co-occurrence network of terms that Twitter users described themselves with (size of node indicates frequency at which a term is used)
  • 4 clusters – personal description, interest and faith, academic role, and attitude and position
  • Words related to academia were more common among users who tweeted and retweeted COVID-19-related research
  • Scholarly-oriented users were more active in disseminating science-based information on Twitter, including COVID-19-related research

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Updated 2021-02-23

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Computing Sciences