Top Word Pairs

Table 5 provides an overview of the 5 most popular words that were used from users from the USA.


**Table 5.** Top 5 word pairs. Filtered by USA.

The most frequent words used together included "wear mask", "wearing mask", "mask, public", "face, mask", and "breathing problem". The first two co-words appeared to be encouraging the use of face masks and the third and fourth most used co-words appeared to be centred around general discussions around the use of masks. The fifth most used co-word appeared to relate to discussions around whether masks could cause breathing problems. Overall, there appeared to be overlaps between phrases and words used in tweets when filtering specifically for the USA, compared to analyzing tweets overall. Furthermore, content such as top hashtags and users appeared to be similar to that of the results of the analysis overall.
