Epidemiological Modeling of Health Information Dynamics on Twitter

• Main Authors: Feeroz, Yusoph, Bernadas, Jan Michael Alexandre C., Cheng, Charibeth K., Lao, Angelyn
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2024
• Subjects: health communication; epidemiological modeling; SEIR; Twitter; reproduction number
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/apssr/vol24/iss1/8; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/apssr/article/1527/viewcontent/RA_207.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

Social media, like Twitter, has become a critical component in promoting public health. Due to the similar nature of information and viruses spreading, there is a new trend of using epidemiological models to study how information spreads on social media. In this study, the SEIR model is adapted to m...