Fig 1.
Search strategy used to identify tweets originating in South Africa.
Fig 2.
Subsection of the five kilometer point grid covering the entire extent of South Africa.
Table 1.
Overall results for all platforms.
Table 2.
Totals of data collected from Twitter, Instagram and YouTube between May 21, 2018 and June 8, 2018 by province.
Table 3.
Sexual risk and HIV related terms extracted from Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
Fig 3.
Map of South Africa showing distribution of Twitter, Instagram and YouTube social media post over a three-week period with road network overlaid.
Fig 4.
Map of South Africa showing distribution of Twitter, Instagram and YouTube social media post related to HIV over a three-week period.