Özet:

The coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemic disease has stirred up political, economic, social and cultural impacts as well as health emergency in all countries throughout the world. Associated with the rapidly progressive spread of the coronavirus epidemic and becoming a pandemic, as a political communication tool metropolitan mayors have established instant, fast, direct communication and interaction with the community through Twitter, one of the most used networks of social media platforms. It is of great importance that metropolitan mayors convey both the works and studies they have performed and realized as metropolitan municipalities, as well as informing the concerned population concerning the pandemic in question, the precautions to be taken, and warnings on Twitter during the pandemic process. During the pandemic process, especially incidental to the enforced restrictions on all kinds of activities to be held face-to-face, Twitter stands out as a social network that draws attention. In this study, 2.189 posts of Ekrem İmamoğlu, Mansur Yavaş, Alinur Aktaş, Fatma Şahin, Cengiz Ergün who serve as Istanbul, Ankara, Bursa, Gaziantep and Manisa Metropolitan Mayors between March 1, 2020 and April 30, 2020 on their official Twitter accounts when the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic process was the most talked about matter and took effect throughout Turkey were obtained through the “Workbenchdata” and the contents of the shared contents realized during the pandemic process were examined in detail, and the data obtained were visualized with “flourish.studio”.

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