App of the week for journalists: Social Searcher, for searching Facebook
An Android app for searching Facebook without logging in
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App of the week:
Phones:
Android
Cost:
Free
What is it?
Enables you to search Facebook without logging in
How is it of use to journalists?
This Android app by Social Searcher allows you to search Facebook posts, groups and pages without logging in to Facebook.
The app allows you to open links from search results in your Android web browser, sort search results by date/time, sort search results by number of "likes" and filter by country. <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-43792" height="417" src="?cmd=ShowAsset&assetID=43119&nosurround=true&fakeExtension=.jpg" title="Facebook-search-1" width="250"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-43793" height="417" src="?cmd=ShowAsset&assetID=43120&nosurround=true&fakeExtension=.jpg" title="facebooksearch3" width="250">
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Sarah Marshall is VP Audience Strategy at Condé Nast. She leads distribution and channel strategy globally. She is also the former technology editor for Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)
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