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…
Senator Social Slices allows you to explore the Twitter-Space of the members of the current US Senate. You can filter the accounts searched by birth decade/generation, zodiac sign, gender, political party, percentage of votes missed, and percentage of time that senator voted against their party. OR, you can ignore all…
PLEASE NOTE: Due to Twitter changes, this Gizmo WILL NOT WORK unless you’re logged in to Twitter. Did you ever want to explore the Twitter space of colleges and universities? Pam’s University Pin makes it easy. Enter a zip code and a search radius of up to 100 miles, and…