  Since December 2019, COVID-19 has been spreading rapidly across the world.
Not surprisingly, conversation about COVID-19 is also increasing. This article
is a first look at the amount of conversation taking place on social media,
specifically Twitter, with respect to COVID-19, the themes of discussion, where
the discussion is emerging from, myths shared about the virus, and how much of
it is connected to other high and low quality information on the Internet
through shared URL links. Our preliminary findings suggest that a meaningful
spatio-temporal relationship exists between information flow and new cases of
COVID-19, and while discussions about myths and links to poor quality
information exist, their presence is less dominant than other crisis specific
themes. This research is a first step toward understanding social media
conversation about COVID-19.
