The study was conducted in the United States across 47 states.
In totality, nearly 670,000 tweets were evaluated, stemming from 186 users on the social platform.
A database containing messages/posts on Twitter was analyzed to uncover any potential early indications of an emerging pandemic in 2019.
The study was conducted by a team of researchers at the American Institute of Physics.
"Though conspiracy theories are nothing new, the advent of social media has created a conduit for more rapid spread of these rumors."
The team examined thousands of tweets sent between July 2014 and September 2017.
A team's study of Twitter posts found both robots and real human underplay the health risks associated with e-cigarettes.
Twitter has hired researchers to examine the health of conversations on its platform.
Researchers use Twitter for a huge range of subjects: measuring how people cope with global crises and their aftermaths, tracking geographic differences in public health and analyzing the behavior of automated “bot”
Sentiments expressed on Facebook and Twitter may be associated with certain weather patterns, study finds.