Topics, Trends, and Sentiments of Tweets About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Temporal Infoveillance Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With restrictions on movement and stay-at-home orders in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, social media platforms such as Twitter have become an outlet for users to express their concerns, opinions, and feelings about the pandemic. Individuals, health agencies, and governments are using Twitter to communicate about COVID-19.

Objective

The aims of this study were to examine key themes and topics of English-language COVID-19-related tweets posted by individuals and to explore the trends and variations in how the COVID-19-related tweets, key topics, and associated sentiments changed over a period of time from before to after the disease was declared a pandemic.

Methods

Building on the emergent stream of studies examining COVID-19-related tweets in English, w

SUBMITTER: Chandrasekaran R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7588259 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature