URL: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/Brand-communications-in-time-of-crisis.html
Updated April 2, 2020
Authors:  Alex Josephson, Eimear Lambe

Brand communications in time of crisis

URL: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-twitter-data/twitter-opens-up-data-for-researchers-to-study-covid-19-tweets-idUSKBN22B2Q1
Published: 4/29/2020
Author: Elizabeth Culliford

Twitter opens up data for researchers to study COVID-19 tweets

1. As of 4/2/2020, According to Twitter:
- There is a COVID-19 related Tweet in every 45 milliseconds.
- Coronavirus is the second most used hashtag of 2020.  
2. 4/29/2020:
- Twitter announced its real-time data to be made accesible by researcher and developers to study COVID-19 tweets

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- The preprint servers began to play a much larger role since the pandemic when the research community is ever more in need for sharing findings and results. 
- The above highlights certain concerns and criticisms that preprint servers received even before the pandemic, one of which is the absence of "peer-preview" process.
- If the lack of peer-review process were to result in unsound science, it is far more consequential for the COVID-19 research for the research directly touches on a matter of life and death. 
-There is an inevitable risk associated with non-peer reviewed papers such as the ones in preprint servers for being not peer-reviewed.
-Because fast dissemination is critical, but the traditional publication takes time, more researchers are utilizing the preprint servers, which, in some cases, advertising their papers via social media –(i.e.) Twitter.

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