Highlights
- •News updates and personal opinions were the most common types of tweets about measles.
- •Individuals were more likely to discuss the severity of measles than other types of users.
- •Nonprofit organizations were more likely to offer cues to action than other users.
- •Media organizations were less likely to include cues to action than other user types.
- •Pro- and anti-vaccine tweets differed in terms of links to media sources.
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Conflicts of interest: None to report.
Funding/support: This study was partially funded by a University of Alabama System Collaborative Research Initiative Grant awarded to L.T.