Leveraging Twitter data to analyze the virality of Covid-19 tweets: a text mining approach

被引:19
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作者
Nanath, Krishnadas [1 ]
Joy, Geethu [1 ]
机构
[1] Middlesex Univ Dubai, Block 16, Dubai, U Arab Emirates
关键词
Covid-19; retweet; content sharing; mental health; emotion-focused content; social media; SOCIAL MEDIA; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; HEALTH INFORMATION; SENTIMENT; EMOTION; POWER; RESPONSES; PATTERNS; AROUSAL; COMMUNICATION;
D O I
10.1080/0144929X.2021.1941259
中图分类号
TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
As the novel coronavirus spreads across the world, work, pleasure, entertainment, social interactions, and meetings have shifted online. The conversations on social media have spiked, and given the uncertainties and new policies, COVID-19 remains the trending topic on all such platforms, including Twitter. This research explores the factors that affect COVID-19 content-sharing by Twitter users. The analysis was conducted using 57,000 plus tweets that mentioned COVID-19 and related keywords. The tweets were subjected to the Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques like Topic modelling, Named Entity-Relationship, Emotion & Sentiment analysis, and Linguistic feature extraction. These methods generated features that could help explain the retweet count of the tweets. The results indicate that tweets with named entities (person, organisation, and location), expression of negative emotions (anger, disgust, fear, and sadness), reference to mental health, optimistic content, and greater length have higher chances of being shared (retweeted). On the other hand, tweets with more hashtags and user mentions are less likely to be shared.
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页码:196 / 214
页数:19
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