1) The volume of conversation about the coronavirus on Twitter initially reached 1 million mentions per day on January 25th and increased to 2 million mentions per day by January 26th.
2) Online news coverage and YouTube videos about the coronavirus in Indonesia increased between January 24th-26th.
3) Based on the detected locations of Twitter users, Indonesia has the most conversations about coronavirus, followed by France and the United States.
2. TREN OF MENTIONS ‘CORONA VIRUS’
Drone Emprit just started the data collection as of 25 Jan 2020. The volume of conversation is very high
internationally. Initially we got 1M mentions per day (25/01), and increased to 2M per day (26/01).
Due to the limitation from Twitter, we
didn’t get complete conversation before
the date of data collection started.
Data collection started
3. TRENDS IN ONLINE NEWS AND YOUTUBE ARE INCREASING
The trend in Indonesia online news was decreased yesterday, from 8k (24/01) to 5,3k (25/01). However, today the
trend is increased again to 8.33k (26/01). More videos in YouTube can be expected than from Instagram.
Volume of
coverages by
online news is
increased
Content in YouTube
is increased
compared to in
Instagram
4. CONVERSATIONS BY COUNTRIES OF TWITTER USERS
The location (country) is based on the profile of the Twitter users. Not all users set their countries correctly. Based on
Drone Emprit’s detection, Indonesia is the country with most conversations, followed by France and US.
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5. TOP 10 COUNTRIES WITH MOST CONVERSATIONS
This distribution is based on detected countries in the Twitter users. Indonesia is number one, followed by
France, USA, Malaysia, UK, Singapore, Australia, and so on. More countries are provided on the right box.
10;India;4435
11;Philippines;4221
12;Venezuela;4147
13;South Korea;3899
14;Canada;3029
15;Argentina;3018
16;Ecuador;2557
17;Mexico;2008
18;Chile;1958
19;Kenya;1938
20;Pakistan;1889
21;South Africa;1606
22;Brazil;1536
23;Germany;1485
24;China;1243
25;United Arab
Emirates;1234
26;Colombia;1222
27;Netherlands;987
28;Turkey;970
29;Switzerland;479
30;Paraguay;464
31;El Salvador;462
32;New Zealand;425
33;Uruguay;415
34;Ghana;339
35;Ireland;336
36;Russia;311
37;Egypt;306
38;Qatar;269
39;Uganda;261
40;Portugal;224
41;Sweden;211
42;Austria;199
6. WHY NOT MUCH FROM CHINA?
This conversation map by cities shows “blank spot” in China. Only in Beijing we get few conversation. Why? Because Twitter is
blocked in China. People must use VPN to access Twitter, and the location won’t be shown from China.
Only Beijing has
Twitter users
7. WHO ARE ALLOWED TO HAVE TWITTER ACCOUNT IN BEIJING?
From Drone Emprit data we can see very few news companies are allowed to have Twitter account in China.
They are @CGTNOfficial, @ChinaDily, @globaltimesnews, @XHNews, @Echinanews, and @PDChina.
8. CHINA NEWS OUTLETS IN TWITTER
These are six China’s news outlets that are allowed to have Twitter accounts. During the Corona Virus
outbreak, we can follow their news updates from Twitter.
9. CONVERSATION BY CITIES IN INDONESIA AND AROUND
Top cities are Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Bandung, Yogyakarta, and Johor Baru.
10. CONVERSATION BY CITIES IN EUROPE
Top cities are Paris, London, York, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Strasbourg. Mostly cities in France.
13. SUB NETWORK FOR USER @DrEricDing
SHOWING MENTIONAND RETWEET LINKS
14. TOP INFLUENCERS ‘CORONA VIRUS’
From the top 5 influencer on Corona Virus, @spectatorindex is the most influencial with 50k engagements.
From Indonesia we are lucky to have @GiaPratamaMD as on of the top influencers.