2020
DOI: 10.1017/cem.2020.361
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The Twitter pandemic: The critical role of Twitter in the dissemination of medical information and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic

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“…In order to be able to test whether our approach can capture this scientific domain knowledge or not, we collect the following two features for each country: (7) percentage of population over the age of 65 [82] and (8) percentage of single-person households [83]. Finally, as we know that popularity of Twitter in a country and announcement of national lockdown (e.g., closing of schools, banning of gatherings) unequivocally affect the Twitter activity in that country, we add (9) percentage of population using Twitter [84] and (10) is_lockdown_announced? (3 day period is encoded as Yes if government restriction is announced [85], No otherwise) features as well.…”
Section: Feature Selectionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In order to be able to test whether our approach can capture this scientific domain knowledge or not, we collect the following two features for each country: (7) percentage of population over the age of 65 [82] and (8) percentage of single-person households [83]. Finally, as we know that popularity of Twitter in a country and announcement of national lockdown (e.g., closing of schools, banning of gatherings) unequivocally affect the Twitter activity in that country, we add (9) percentage of population using Twitter [84] and (10) is_lockdown_announced? (3 day period is encoded as Yes if government restriction is announced [85], No otherwise) features as well.…”
Section: Feature Selectionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Due to its large number of users, Twitter has been the primary social media platform for acquiring, sharing, and spreading information during global adverse events, including the COVID-19 pandemic [10]. Especially during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of posts have been tweeted in a span of couple of weeks by users, that is, citizens, politicians, corporations, and governmental institutions [11][12][13][14].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Two sentinel difficulties have resulted, with the first being large-scale media overconsumption. 16 Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, many forms of media have been invaluable in assisting with widespread, real-time dissemination of essential guidance as public health circumstances have changed (e.g., social distancing directives). However, once such critical information is transmitted, the utility of further media consumption for most people is unclear, no matter how well-intentioned its source.…”
Section: Novel and Heightened Challenges In The Era Of Covid-19mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As of April 20, 2020, already seven (7) papers on the topic of tracking and forecasting COVID-19 using Google Trends data have been published, according to PubMed (advanced search: covid AND google trends) [22], monitoring, analyzing, or forecasting COVID-19 in several regions like Taiwan [23], China [24][25], Europe [26][27], USA [27][28], Iran [27,29]. Note that for Twitter publications related to the COVID-19 pandemic, eight papers (8) are online up to this point (PubMed advanced search: covid AND twitter [22]), published from March 13 to April 20, 2020 [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]. Table 1 consists of the systematic reporting of COVID-19 Google Trends studies, in the order of the reported publication date.…”
Section: Cases Deathsmentioning
confidence: 99%