Analysis of close to 60,000 Twitter opinions on homeopathy in COVID-19, mined over seven months during 2022, showed unique positive Tweets at twice the number of unique negative Tweets. However, when Retweets were included, negative Tweets were 23% higher – indicating to researchers that an anti-homeopathy stance will get you better Twitter traction.1
Comparing the bios of positive versus negative Tweeters showed word/phrase frequency:(1)
Bar length indicates the overall importance of the word as a differentiator across the two categories.
The most important words appear at the top and the least important words placed toward the bottom.
The x-axis represents the proportional shift measure of each word while the y-axis represents the rank of the word.
Examination of the top 10 words, revealed the majority of them occurred in the bios of users who hold a positive opinion toward homeopathy.
This research excluded all Tweets (views and opinions) of non-English speakers who represent the overwhelming majority of the world population - the researchers stated their work as a step in the right direction in the development of strategies to oppose unproven therapeutic claims, including homeopathic formulations.(1)
Bopaiah, J. et al., 2022. Opinions on Homeopathy for COVID-19 on Twitter. Proc ACM Web Sci Conf. Jun; 2022: 359-363. Available www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9472594/