Correction to: BMC Public Health 21, 2016 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12084-x

It was highlighted that in the original article [1] the legend of Fig. 2 was erroneously swapped with an in-text sentence. This Correction article shows the correct Fig. 2. The original article has been updated.

Fig. 2
figure 1

An anonymised sample tweet and the corresponding raw text after pre-processing. The blue text in the sample tweet is text that Twitter recognises as a handle or hashtag. In the processing steps, the red letters denote the part to be pre-processed while green is the filtered part