Searching for information on social media can often feel like looking for a needle in a haystack, and the process does not end once you've found what you need.
Cordelia Hebblethwaite, who helped launched BBC Trending and who was also a John S. Knight Journalism fellow at Stanford University in 2015, has put together a free guide with tips and tools to help reporters with every aspect of social newsgathering – from organising their feeds and searching through them, to verifying information and getting to the bottom of trending topics.
In this post on MediaShift, Hebblethwaite highlights some useful tools from the guide, including twXplorer for searching Twitter and Jeffrey's Image Metadata Viewer to find out when and where an image was taken, and on what device.
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