SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS By Henk van Ess Link What is it? Acccess Notes

Snapbird http://snapbird.org Search for words in timelines FreeTwitter for Reporter https://dev.twitter.com/media/newsrooms Reporting and publishing tips from Twitter FreeAdvanced search https://twitter.com/search-advanced Find people on the scene FreeCurrent search https://twitter.com/search-home Find people on the scene Free Similar, but differs partlyVisual search http://www.geofeedia.com Search and monitor by location Paid trailLocation search http://www.bing.com/social Search the newest tweets Free Change language to USBing Map Search http://tinyurl.com/chp77yq Search on a map Fre Click Search to change cityTwitterfall http://twitterfall.com/ Watch breaking news and trends Free, with Twitter accountBacktweets http://www.backtweets.com/ Try to find out the original source of link Free Click "More tweets" for restBit.ly Put a + after any bit.ly link Get statistics about the link Free Example: http://bit.ly/12AsyB9+Twiiter bio search www.followerwonk.com Search and browse bio's FreeTwicsy www.twicsy.com Find photo's from Twitter accounts Free A lot of adsTweetstats http://www.tweetstats.com/ Find reply statistics and more Free SlowProminent search http://wefollow.com Discover prominent people Free

Facebook

Friendbrowser https://www.facebook.com/find-friends/browser/ Search for city, employer, education etc Free, with Facebook accountGoogle-trick intitle:cocaine site:facebook.com Find words in a link of Facebook FreeFacing Facebook http://facebook.eccar.org Tries to find more than Faebook does Free Try your own nameType in email www.facebook.com If email exists, full user is shown Free, with Facebook accountProfile Pics Search images.google.com Click on Camera and upload profile pic FreeFor Reporters https://www.facebook.com/journalists Facebook resource for journalists Free, with Facebook account

LinkedIn

Advanced Search http://www.linkedin.com/search?trk=advsrch Search for (ex)-employees Free, Linkedin acc. NeededGoogle-trick "nuclear power plant" site:linkedin.com Search for topics without being member Free Find specialistsGroup directory http://www.linkedin.com/search-fe/group_search Search groups Free, account needed Find communitiesCompanies http://www.linkedin.com/companies Find company details Free, account needed Alerts are possibleValidation Type job details and site:linkedin.com in Google Disclose anonymous accounts Free

Verification

Be More Skeptical http://bit.ly/12Atcyr General principles of validating social media Free Good startThe Pope Case http://to.pbs.org/12gUgRF Case of validation under pressure Free Validating claims and photo'sSpokeo http://www.spokeo.com/username-search Find if a nick is uses in other places Paid, with trial Click Username Namecheck http://namechk.com Cheap version of Spokeo Free Click on "Taken"Imgops www.imgops.com All kinds of image validation tricks Free A little nerdyInformation checking http://bit.ly/109hD1y What are signs of (un)reliable posts? FreeTwiangulate http://twiangulate.com/search/ Find relations between Twitter users FreeArchive.ly http://www.archive.ly People Research Simplified Free Aimed at companiesAnalyze followers http://followerwonk.com/analyze Analazy followers and sort them Paid, one run is free

Search engines

Social Mention http://www.socialmention.com Real-time social media search and analysis Free Slow, but effectiveIcerocket http://www.icerocket.com Search Twitter and Facebook FreeWho's Talking http://www.whostalkin.com Social Media Search Tool FreeCurate Me http://curate.me Get news from your Twitter/Faceb streams Free, accounts neededTopsy http://topsy.com Search social Web Free Click the tabs for more

Organizing

Addictomatic http://addictomatic.com Create a topic page out of a buzzword Free Includes normal searchSproutsocial http://www.sproutsocial.com See the impact of yourself Paid, trial See how others see youQwant http://www.qwant.com Meta-search engine BetaResult.ly http://www.result.ly Follow news streams Free, registration neededStoryful http://www.storyful.com Validated news from social media Free, registration neededHootsuite http://hootsuite.com Dashboard for social media Free up to five accountsRebelmouse https://www.rebelmouse.com Your social frontpage Needs soc. Med. AccountsScoopit http://www.scoop.it/browse#category_searchSelected Curation tool, find specialists + articles Free, registration neededPrismatic http://getprismatic.com Connects to newsfeed you find interesteing Free, registration neededZite http://www.zite.com Aggregates news and shares it Free, registration needed Only iOs or AndroidFlipboard http://www.flipboard.com Magazines for breaking news Free, registration needed Only iOs or AndroidSpundge http://www.spundge.com Digital story telling Free, registration needed BetaSeeSaw http://sees.aw For Twitter only : shows who's taling Free, needs account/reg BetaOneQube http://www.oneqube.com Claims to make your streams smarter Free, needs account/reg BetaRapportive www.rapportive.com Checks contact details iN Gmail Free, needs account/reg Add-on for browsers av.Klout http://klout.com/#/a/search Find ranked specialists Free, needs soc. Med accountIf this, than to that http://www.ifttt.com Combines alerts in social media Free, accounts needed Can be techy