Introduction

All the humanity surrendered to a virus identified as COVID-19 in early 2020. Life slowed down. Although the measures taken increase each day, the contamination continues to spread increasingly.

I. A. Acar (B)

Department of Economic Policy, Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey

V. Altintag

Akhisar Vocational High School Computer Technologies Programme, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey

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and Application, https:ZZdoi.orgZ10.1007Z978-981-16-8024-3_13.. nor the crowds can resist this. First, the Pope’s traditional “Sunday Prayer” in the Vatican held online revealed the gravity of the event. Iran’s request for help saying, “1/3 of the people got the virus” even it had not cared at first, calling it just a rumour, turned out to be a complete despair. Finally, in 2020, the Kaaba was closed to visitors. And nobody was able to made pilgrimage in 2020.

On the one hand, businesses shut down, halted working life and employees unable to work... on the other hand, lives going on... Ongoing economic liabilities, the ongoing struggle to survive, economies have been challenged. Workplaces that were closed, educational institutions that could not provide service, curfews and travel bans completely suppressed life. The whole goal has become to prevent the spread of the epidemic.

The process is uncertain. Optimistic news continues to come, although not very positive about the vaccine. States announced packages of measures one after another.

1n addition to many heads of state in the world, many internationally recognized personalities were tested with this virus. There were people who lost their lives. There were also those who did not care. However, the measures taken by the states were violated in the street. The people did not give up on the street. Anti-measures protests never ended. The street started protests, first against the closure and then against the mask. Communities coming together on social media expressed their demands and objections. Social media has become a new medium for those who want to defend their rights and express themselves. Many headers/hashtags were opened for discussion in all social media. 1t was spoken, objected and even made fun of.

Social media has become a means of public expression amidst pandemic bans. The issue of “social distancing”, which the authorities especially emphasize, has been effective in the people’s orientation to such socialization channels. As an environment where they feel safe, social media allows sharing at any time of the day. From the first periods of the epidemic, people shared their ideas and information they obtained/read from social media channels. Everything from the experiences of those affected to the protection measures was written down in these environments. Sometimes hundreds of comments were made especially for the posts made via the Twitter application. Thousands of support messages came to a thread created. 1nstant entertainment, excitement and emotion sharing turned into a means of information during this period.

Due to social distancing, rotating work and work from home became common. All education services from primary education to university were carried out through various distance education platforms. 1t can be observed from the intensity of use of social media programmes and the increasing content sharing that the majority of the remaining time is spent on social media channels.

The Coronavirus epidemic caused people to be isolated in their homes in our country as is the case around the world. Due to the spread of the epidemic, people had to be more careful with each other. 1n the later stages of the epidemic, the public could not leave the house due to the restrictions, which negatively affected many sectors economically. However, companies serving in the technology sector turned this crisis period into an opportunity, because the people staying at home have spent most of their time with technological devices, whether they are compulsory or not. The reason for this is that training meetings, business meetings and family meetings cannot be held face to face. Hence, humanity’s bond with technology has increased even more in this period.

The increasing use of technology also increased the use of social media platforms. People contribute to the formation of the agenda by sharing on social media platforms. In addition, people constitute an example of the data community called “big data” with their shares. The process of producing meaningful results by processing this “big data”, which has been obtained recently, is deemed important by states, institutions and companies.

The behaviour of social media users during the pandemic period is remarkable. As time spent increased, so did the contents. Twitter has become one of the most common social media tools with its 340 million users. The analysis of the message content of some parts of the posts related to the economy reflecting COVID-19 or the pandemic is the subject of this study. By collecting data on the Twitter platform for the last month, during which the bans were ongoing, the posts collected with the help of keywords determined between 1 and 31 May 2020 are the subject of the analysis.

The topics on which the headers determined during the pandemic process concen­trated, other titles associated, tagging and people have been analysed using text mining and natural language processing techniques. A data analysis study has been conducted on the titles and associated tagging in the COVID-19 process, by analysing these posts made on Twitter through a text data set (corpus).

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