Twitter says it saw 600% increase in daily average tweets around COVID-19 during India’s second wave of coronavirus

Twitter India: Twitter has shared key insights regarding the tweets related to coronavirus that the microblogging platform saw during the second wave of the pandemic in India between April 1 and May 31. Comparing the tweets related to COVID-19 in the months of February and March with those in April and May, Twitter found that there was 600% increase in the average number of daily COVID-19 related tweets on the platform, meaning that the average number of daily tweets related to the pandemic in April-May was seven times that in February-March period. Not only that but the support and sharing of information among people about COVID-19 related queries increased by 50%. The company also found that tweets from medical professionals sharing information in April-May were 1.5 times that in the preceding period.