In March this year, the social network asked for ideas from researchers on how they might investigate and analyse conversations on its site. Twitter received 280 proposals from academics, which were then reviewed by the company, leading to the selection of the two teams.

Twitter has already taken some steps to improve the health of the platform, including removing locked, inactive accounts and changing how tweets and replies appear on the site.

Writing in a blog post on its new partnerships on conversation health, the site said it had to improve the health of its content.

"Ensuring we have thoughtful, comprehensive metrics to measure the health of public conversation on Twitter is crucial to guiding our work and making progress, and both of our partners will help us continue to think critically and inclusively so we can get this right," the firm said.

"We know this is a very ambitious task, and look forward to working with these two teams, challenging ourselves to better support a thriving, healthy public conversation."

On Friday, Twitter stock dropped more than 20pc after the company announced the number of monthly active users fell by 1 million. The drop, Twitter said, was partly due to “decisions we have made to prioritize the health of the platform".