Tweeting Doomsday Scenarios: Engaging Consumers Online During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Begum Kaplan; Elizabeth G. Miller

Tweeting Doomsday Scenarios: Engaging Consumers Online During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Begum Kaplan^*
, Elizabeth G. Miller

^*Corresponding author for this work

Florida International University
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Abstract

Using text mining methods to analyze 112,641 tweets posted during two different time periods of the Covid-19 pandemic, this research explores the impact of three features – valence, length, and inclusion of URL – on consumer decisions to retweet, like, and reply to tweets in order to gain greater understanding of the features that drive consumer engagement during times of crisis.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	808-809
Number of pages	2
Journal	AMA Winter Academic Conference Proceedings 2021
Volume	32
State	Published - 2021
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

crisis
COVID-19
social media
Twitter
text-mining

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Tweeting Doomsday Scenarios: Engaging Consumers Online During the Coronavirus Pandemic

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Tweeting Doomsday Scenarios: Engaging Consumers Online During the Coronavirus Pandemic

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