unit 4.6

News Gathering & Monitoring: Tools

Tools

CrowdTangle is a social listening application that allows you to see what is being said across social media. CrowdTangle has created a special dashboard for COVID-19. The dashboard allows the user to look at the trending stories per country across the Facebook group of social media.

 

Webinar on using CrowdTangle

 

Google Trends is a special COVID-19 dashboard. On it you can search per country what are the main search terms people are turning to google for.

Facebook Ads Library provides a view of all active adverts, including spend, reach and funding entities if ads are about social issues, elections or politics. They are archived for seven years.

 

Twitter trending topics

 

Trendsmap helps identify trending hashtags by geolocation

 

Webinar on using Tweeply to examine in depth hashtags, sourcing, and sharing.

 

TweetDeck

 

Click here, here, and here for guides on using TweetDeck.