JSON Baumgartner on Twitter: "@emollick For disclosure, that's a lower bound number. The actual number when taking into account an expanded set of terms and also reply chains would likely push that number up. It's quite amazing actually." / Twitter

The whole word is talking about one thing! 10% of all posts on Twitter include the words “coronavirus,” “covid,” “virus,” or “pandemic.”

Quote Tweet

JSON Baumgartner

@jasonbaumgartne

Mar 23, 2020

Looking at a ten minute chunk of Twitter's firehose by using the Twitter search API, approximately ~10% of all Tweets are directly related to the pandemic. This only includes tweets matching specific search terms and does not include discussion threads / replies. #coronavirus

Show this thread

Conversation