A thematic analysis of highly retweeted early COVID-19 tweets: consensus, information, dissent and lockdown life

What is it about?

Twitter played many positive roles in disseminating COCID-19 information, mainly through unofficial tweets. Users shared social distancing information, helped build support for social distancing, criticised government responses, expressed support for key workers, and helped each other to cope with social isolation. A few popular tweets not supporting social distancing show that government messages sometimes failed.

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