Leveraging Twitter data to analyze the virality of Covid-19 tweets: a text mining approach
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Nanath, K. and Joy, G. 2023. Leveraging Twitter data to analyze the virality of Covid-19 tweets: a text mining approach. Behaviour and Information Technology. 42 (2), pp. 196-214. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2021.1941259
Type | Article |
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Title | Leveraging Twitter data to analyze the virality of Covid-19 tweets: a text mining approach |
Authors | Nanath, K. and Joy, G. |
Abstract | 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. |
Keywords | Covid-19; retweet; content sharing; mental health; emotion-focused content; social media |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
Journal | Behaviour and Information Technology |
ISSN | 0144-929X |
Electronic | 1362-3001 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 17 Jun 2021 |
25 Jan 2023 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 28 Jun 2021 |
Accepted | 04 Jun 2021 |
Submitted | 10 Oct 2020 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Copyright Statement | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Behaviour and Information Technology on 17 June 2021, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0144929x.2021.1941259 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2021.1941259 |
Web of Science identifier | WOS:000662754200001 |
Language | English |
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