**5. Conclusions**

Overall, it was found that the shape of the network resembled a community as there were a range of users conversing amongs<sup>t</sup> each other in di fferent clusters. It was found that a range of accounts were influential and/or mentioned ranging from ordinary citizens, politicians, and popular culture figures. The most common theme and popular hashtags to emerge from the data encouraged the public to wear masks. Public health authorities and influential accounts could continue to utilize social media platforms to encourage users to wear masks.

**Author Contributions:** Conceptualization, W.A.; data curation, W.A.; supervision, J.V.-A. and F.L.S.; writing—original draft, W.A., F.L.S. and P.A.M.-S.; writing—review and editing, W.A., J.V.-A., F.L.S. and P.A.M.-S. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** This research received no external funding.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
