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. 2021 Mar 16;23(3):e23272. doi: 10.2196/23272

Table 1.

Statistics of the scraped tweets.

Language Duration Keywordsa used Tweets, n
Korean January 1 to March 27, 2020 corona, Wuhan pneumonia 1,447,489
Farsi January 1 to March 30, 2020 #corona, #coronavirus, #Wuhan, #pneumonia 459,610
Vietnamese January 1 to March 31, 2020 corona, n-CoV, COVID, acute pneumonia 87,763
Hindi January 1 to March 27, 2020 corona, Wuhan pneumonia 1,373,333

aKeywords were used to collect relevant data for each country. We used two kinds of keywords: one official naming of COVID-19 and Wuhan as an unofficial representative naming of the virus. Keywords listed here are translated in English from the actual local language (eg, “코로나” means “Corona” in Korean). The original keywords in local languages are listed in Table MA1 in Multimedia Appendix 1.