Understanding the Information Disseminated Using Twitter During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Twitter, with its ever-growing influence, has continued to serve as a means of spreading information and often providing early warnings to the situations that the world is encountering. The COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. With this disease resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths, it is valuable that an analysis is conducted regarding the source of information posted on social media sites such as Twitter. In this study, we specifically analyze the source- URLs being posted by influential Twitter accounts. Our main goal in this study is to understand the kind of online materials, i.e., external weblinks that Twitter users prefer to promote/share about COVID-19.