: COVID-19 Vaccine Awareness: Twitter taps on the power of conversations #IndiaNEWS #COVID-19 Unfurling how Twitter has weaved threads of information, raising awareness about the COVID-19 Vaccine, and

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COVID-19 Vaccine Awareness: Twitter taps on the power of conversations #IndiaNEWS #COVID -19
Unfurling how Twitter has weaved threads of information, raising awareness about the COVID-19 Vaccine, and how it is utilizing the potential of public conversations productively.

Conversations on Twitter have been an integral element of the social network, almost as a public discussion forum that more often than not gives us a sense of the state of the society, and consequently the general mindset around COVID-19 Vaccine, the most significant tool to fight the pandemic.

Sharing an anecdote, initiating a discussion, or putting out a public opinion, conversations related to the vaccine have not been indifferent to this practice. Whether its sharing that they got the jab, expressing concerns around its availability, addressing hesitancy, highlighting its efficacy, asking unanswered questions, or augmenting unacknowledged issues.

The active userbase of 199 Mn is constantly engaged in or exposed to several conversations. Here is how the microblogging service is amplifying credible information in partnership with health officials and news publishers, and silencing unreliable misinformation.

Analyzing Conversations

Twitter released a COVID-19 stream endpoint that enables developers to understand the global public conversation through access to the millions of Tweets posted daily around the topic. Developers will need to apply and be accepted for approved access to this endpoint.

The dataset generated can help in developing tools that answer specific community questions about COVID-19, understand the spread of misinformation, and curate an emergency response, and many more use case applications of insights gathered from public conversations on Twitter.

Twitter has made the access available for free and (approved) developers and researchers will be able to study the public conversation about COVID-19 in real-time. The stream endpoint includes a full-fidelity stream of public Tweets related to COVID-19 and Coronavirus as defined in Tweet annotations, delivered as they are created, and does not include private data or protected Tweets.

Facilitating Conversations

Twitter has facilitated several Q&A sessions and public discussions that address the concerns of the community. The platform has worked in association with the Ministry of Health (India) to curate and host a weekly expert talk session, organize Vaccine Vartha.

In partnership with Editorji, an AI-powered news platform, Twitter has also launched a series called #AskTheDoctor , that features medical experts, virologists, members of COVID-19 response teams, public health officials, medical professors, mental health experts and epidemiologists, and more. The series is live-streamed and users can Tweet their questions and get them answered in real-time.