Knight Lab: Beginners Guide to Collecting Twitter Data
Scraping Expert: Best Way to Scrape Data from Twitter
Tweepy Tweet Scraper
From Dr. Ken Blake, this tools lets you search recent tweets, using search terms you specify, and save the tweets. along with key metadata, in an Excel file on your computer. Updated April 2021.
Tweetbeaver
An entire suite of useful Twitter tools: User lookups, track accounts following each other, search within a user’s timeline, etc.
Botometer
Botometer (formerly BotOrNot) checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score based on how likely the account is to be a bot. Higher scores are more bot-like.
Searchmy.bio
Search for Instagram influencers and users.
Tweet Beaver
Several Twitter tracking tools all in one place.
Sources and Keywords: The Fundamentals of Online Newsgathering
The fourth book in First Draft’s series of Essential Guides looks at the tools and techniques for finding newsworthy material online.
CrowdTangle Link Checker Chrome Browser Extension
An easy way to see how often a link has been shared, who shared it and what they said.
Twazzup
Social media analytics tool
GIJN Toolbox: Searching Social Media
OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS
Twitonomy
Tool can be used to observe a specific account’s activity and quickly identify signs of suspicious behavior. You also can browse, sort and remove people from your lists
MuckRack Trends
Works like Google Trends but also shows you how many articles are written about each term, as well as top publications and journalists covering each topic.
Keyhole.co
Track hashtags in real-time.
Botometer
Checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score based on how likely the account is to be a bot. Higher scores are more bot-like.
AccountAnalysis.app
This tool enables you to evaluate Twitter accounts. For example how automated they are, how many Retweets they post, or which websites they link to most often.
WhoPostedWhat.com
A non-public Facebook keyword search for people who work in the public interest. It allows you to search keywords on specific dates. You are granted access because of your work.
First Draft News: Newsgathering and Monitoring on the Social Web
Video: How to Mute a Word in Twitter
Long press on the word. It’s easy.
Picodash
Search Twitter and Instagram photos.
GIJN: How to Use Tweetdeck for Open-Source Investigations
Best Twitter Search Tricks
All kinds of filters and resources.
Mobile and Social Media Journalism: A Practical Guide
Blogs, tutorials, industry sources, syllabuses and more. Site is tied to a journalism textbook.
GIJN: How to Identify Bots, Trolls and Botnets
Usersearch.org
Find the person behind a username, email address or phone number.
IJNet: Social Media for Journalists – The Basics
Verifying Social Media Content
A great list of links, case studies and best practices from Josh Stearns.
45 Free Social Monitoring Tools
Seven Ways Journalists Can up Their Social Media Game
TweetGram
Makes it possible for users to automatically tweet their Instagram photos and videos on Twitter. This will help to save time because they only have to post once on Instagram and have it on Twitter automatically.
Crowdtangle Link Checker Chrome Extension
Journalism.co.uk: Tips to Improve Your Social Media Presence
GIJN Toolbox: Searching Social Media
Social News Desk
A great newsroom tool to manage stations’ social media accounts. It helps us map out the day’s posts (but also very flexible to upgrade and change). It was created by two former newsroom managers so they understand what producers need.
FollowersAnalysis
Followers analysis helps you analyze Twitter followers, export followers list in CSV, compare multiple twitter accounts and their followers, track followers growth rate and search Twitter profiles.
GIJN: Advanced Guide on Verifying Video Content
Paul Bradshaw: How to Share, Store, Measure Snapchat Stories
Real-time social media search and analysis.
Facebook Search Tool: People Findthor
Search by employment past/present, relationship status, etc.
Journalists and Publishers on TikTok
A list/mini app from Jeremy Caplan.
Who Posted What
Non-public Facebook keyword search.
Digital Forensics: Using Social and Online Tools to Find Great Stories
Video from an ONA ’19 conference panel with great tools and tips.
The Social Media Reporter
This Medium page is a guide to using social media for newsgathering. It covers verification, organizing your feeds, covering trending stories, and finding material from a specific location/or a specific beat.
Tagboard
Social search and display platform.
How to Monitor Social Media for Misinformation
Buzz Sumo
Find the most popular content online and analyze topics, competitors and keywords.
Social-Searcher
Social search engine.
Joy Mayer: Social Listening Tools
GIJN: A Guide to Investigating TikTok
Using Twitter as a Data Resource: Social Media Research Tools (2017)
Free or Cheap Tools for Social News Gatherers
Geosocial Footprint
A footprint is combined bits of location information that a user divulges through social media, which ultimately forms the users location “footprint”. For Twitter.com users, this footprint is created from GPS enabled tweets, social check-ins, natural language location searching (geocoding), and profile harvesting.
Hash
Get a glimpse inside what’s trending on Twitter.
London School of Economics: Current Social Media Research Tools
JournoResource: Reporting Tips for Verifying Social Media UGC
Wired: A Beginner’s Guide to TikTok
LifeHacker: Search Twitter More Efficiently
Twitter Guide for Skeptics and Newbies
Tailored to journalists, this guide from Columbia University Journalism Dean of Students Sree Sreenivathan gives you everything you need to know.
Verification Junkie
This tool from Josh Stearns centralizes several social media verification tools in one place. Great for reporting and fact-checking on deadline.
30 Tools to Help Journalists Use Twitter Better
10 Twitter Links for Journalists
SimpleReach
Tracks content in real-time across the social web.
How to create, manage and embed Twitter collections
Searching Social Media
A Google Doc full of tips and links from Joy Mayer.
15 Tips for Newsgathering via Twitter
Tips form Sarah Marshall’s blog.
Bottlenose
Track topics across social media.
Electoral
A new way to build Twitter lists.
Social Bro
Manage your Twitter lists. Developed by Patriots TE Rob Gronkowski
ReadWrite: An Illustrated Guide to Twitter Jargon
Juicer
Aggregate all of your social media into one feed.
Crowdlinker
Share your content with people who fit your target audience.
Journalists Should See Vine as a Social Storytelling Resource
Modern Journalist: Twitter List of Journalism Educators
Heidi Cohen: 27 Tips to Improve Your Twitter Strategy
Tools for Creating Images for Social Media
How Journalists Can Get the Most Out of Twitter
Buffer: The Big List of 61 Social Media Tools
21 Twitter Tools Every Power User Should Use
The Ultimate List of Social Publishing Tools
49 Curation and Clipping Tools
PBS Idea Lab: Tips for Using Social Media as a Reporting Tool
CJR: The New Importance of Social Listening Tools
Buffer: Social Media Resource Kit
Good tools and resources. Geared to marketing but it also has some tools helpful to journalists.
TweetCred
Real-time credibility evaluation on Twitter.
MuckRack.com
A huge directory of journalists on Twitter. A must-bookmark for journalists.
Journalism2Ls: Twitter Tools for Journalists
Hootsuite
Great Twitter management tool. Built-in link compressor, manage multiple accounts, schedule tweets for later, etc.
Twitterfall
Great for chats, just type in a keyword and follow/participate in the discussion.
Monitter
Track three trending topics at once.
Gramfeed
Lets You Search Instagram.
SAM Desk
A social media research and storytelling tool.
Jeremy Caplan: Twitter List of Cool Portfolio Tools
Content Curation Tools Supermap
Resources galore from Robin Good.
10 Basic Twitter Tools Experts Use
Open Reporter
A social network for journalists, this site provides many helpful tools. Includes listings of journos on social media.
Journalism2ls: 50 Apps to Use with Twitter
From the Knight Lab – a better way to search Twitter.
ManageFlitter
Sorts through your followers and those you are following. See how active/inactive they are and unfollow the noise or the fake accounts.
Liquid Newsroom: Great Social Media and Multimedia Tools
Great list of web apps that work with Twitter and other social media.
FollowerWonk
Helps you dig deeper into Twitter analytics and connect with influencers. Produce free analytics and graphic reports.
Nodexl Graph Gallery
Great visualizations of Twitter interactivity around various hashtags, topics, events.
Simply Measured
Free tools for measuring social media engagement.
Journalist’s Resource: Twitter Research
From Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center.
Twiends: Twitter How-To Page
Twitter basics in an easy-to-follow graphic.
Al Tompkins Online Tools for Journalists and Educators
GeoFeedia
Enables location-based searches for social media content. Users can type in a place name, address, even the name of a sports venue, or they can simply outline an area on a map. Geofeedia displays the latest geotagged content (Twitter, Instagram, YouTube etc.) in the tagged area.
Twitchy
Twitter curation site.
TweepSearch
A search tool more powerful than the one built into Twitter. You can detail searches and track down someone whose Twitter handle you can’t remember.
Mom, This is How Twitter Works
Learn Twitter basics. Fun site.
How to Write a Killer Twitter Headline
Social Media Today
A daily chronicle of Internet, mobile and tablet publishing news, information and opinion.
40 Tips To Help Journalists Turn Facebook Into The Ultimate News Portal
Trendistic.com
Tracks Twitter trends.
Ifttt.com
Organize your social media and other online accounts.
OneForty
Lists the best Twitter tools by category: desktop, mobile, media sharing, analytics, etc.
OneForty: News Twitter Tools
A must-bookmark list of key Twitter tools for news journalists.
Useful Newsroom Social Media Tools
Nice list of resources from Kate Gardiner.
Twitter for Teachers
Nice links and examples from Kathy Schrock.
Sociable Blog: 100 Twitter Tool
Rapportive
Analyzes your Gmail contacts and provides relevant info. about them, including Twitter handles.
Twiangulate
Wonderful tool. Enter two or more Twitter addresses and pinpoint their mutual followers. Great for sourcing and paring down a list of people to follow.
HashTracking
Track how far your Twitter account reaches. You can do the same with a specific hashtag.
Tweet Reach
This wasn’t in Sree’s list, but it’s cool and works along the same lines as the aforementioned Hashtracking.
Facebook + Journalists
Like the page and join the conversation.
Sree Tips on Facebook
Like the page and his tips will show up in your Facebook feed.
LinkedIn for Journalists
Does training tailored to journos every few weeks.