Emotion diffusion effect: Negative sentiment COVID-19 tweets of public organizations attract more responses from followers

• Haiyan Yu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Data and Decision Sciences, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China

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• Ching-Chi Yang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cyang3@memphis.edu

  Affiliation Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2517-2709

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• Ping Yu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Computing & Information Technology, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia

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• Ke Liu

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Center for Data and Decision Sciences, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China

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