  Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, users are increasingly turning to online
services. An increase in social media usage has also been observed, leading to
the suspicion that this has also raised cyberbullying. In this initial work, we
explore the possibility of an increase in cyberbullying incidents due to the
pandemic and high social media usage. To evaluate this trend, we collected
454,046 cyberbullying-related public tweets posted between January 1st, 2020 --
June 7th, 2020. We summarize the tweets containing multiple keywords into their
daily counts. Our analysis showed the existence of at most one statistically
significant changepoint for most of these keywords, which were primarily
located around the end of March. Almost all these changepoint time-locations
can be attributed to COVID-19, which substantiates our initial hypothesis of an
increase in cyberbullying through analysis of discussions over Twitter.
