Medscape, March 20, 2020
There are at least 100 million tweets a day pouring into Twitter referencing some aspect of the coronavirus pandemic, according to Tom Lee, cofounder of Symplur, a healthcare social media-monitoring company.
The volume is so overwhelming, Symplur has had to “throttle back” the number of tweets it analyzes to avoid a system crash. The hashtag #SARSCoV2, which has not been throttled back, is being tweeted at a rate of at least 1300 times per minute, Lee told Medscape Medical News.
