First 100 days of COVID-19 – map of Australian Twitter users’ concerns

Twitter users were well ahead of the Federal Government in calling for shutdown of large sporting events, mass gatherings and schools, according to an interactive visualisation of the millions of tweets during the first 100 days of COVID-19 on the Australian Twittersphere.

  • Analysis of 2.8 million tweets mentioning coronavirus from January to April
  • Twitter users called urged governments for shutdown from start of March
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