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Twitter messages on COVID-19 social distancing associated with decreased mobility locally

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Twitter messages on COVID-19 social distancing are associated with decreased mobility locally

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Twitter messages about COVID-19 social distancing are associated with decreased mobility locally the next day, according to database of hundreds of thousands of geotagged tweets.

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Article Title: "Social distancing beliefs and human mobility: Evidence from Twitter"

Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0246949


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