Curious about the backstory and context of Wikipedia articles? Meet Wiki Page Backstory, a handy tool designed to help you delve into how Wikipedia pages end up in categories. Wiki Page Backstory works by analyzing pages newly-added to a category and setting up time-bounded searches across Google Web, Google News,…
Pam’s Pin takes the address you specify and translates it into a location-based Twitter search URL which opens in a new tab. You can search for tweets in a radius of up to 100 km. Tick the checkbox if you want to restrict your results to tweets from verified Twitter…
Want to find local people and local events? Try the Local Community Finder. The LCF uses location and date information to build a Google query for events and news in your area. In addition, it creates a Twitter radius search of your zip code so you see what people in…
When someone’s talking on Twitter, get the receipts. Twitter Receipts has you enter a Twitter handle and a date, then queries The Wayback Machine for the closest snapshot of the Twitter handle to that date. Sometimes the Twitter interface might be in a different language, but all the content I’ve…
The ProPublica Congress API includes information about the social media of Congress members. This tool takes advantage of that to generate focused Google queries for a members’ social media space. Specifically it will generate Google queries that will search across: – The member’s Facebook posts – The member’s Facebook photos…