Twitter sentiment analysis from Iran about COVID 19 vaccine.

Journal: Diabetes & metabolic syndrome
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The development of vaccines against COVID-19 has been a global purpose since the World Health Organization declared the pandemic. People usually use social media, especially Twitter, to transfer knowledge and beliefs on global concerns like COVID-19-vaccination, hence, Twitter is a good source for investigating public opinions. The present study aimed to assess Persian tweets to (1) analyze Iranian people's view toward COVID-19 vaccination. (2) Compare Iranian views toward a homegrown and imported COVID-19-vaccines.

Authors

  • Zahra Bokaee Nezhad
    Department of Computer Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. Electronic address: zboaee@gmail.com.
  • Mohammad Ali Deihimi
    Department of Computer Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. Electronic address: m.a.deihimi@gmail.com.