Tool of the week for journalists: Conweets, for tracking Twitter conversations
Conweets allows you to track Twitter conversations
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Tool of the week:
What is it?
A tool to track Twitter conversations between two people.
How is it of use to journalists?
If you have ever had to look for a public Twitter spat or conversation between two users you may have used Bettween or the conversation tracking function in Tweetbot (which can turn a conversation into a Storify from within the app) . Bettween has now closed its doors but a new platform called Conweets launched earlier this month that allows you to track conversations between two users. You can get conversations going back several months. <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46342" height="299" src="?cmd=ShowAsset&assetID=43164&nosurround=true&fakeExtension=.jpg" title="conweets" width="539"> Another handy function is that if you enter just one Twitter handle, you will see a list all the conversations that user has had and be able to track a conversation from that list.
This could be a really useful tool when reaching out to new sources. For example, find a key person contributing interesting tweets to an unfolding news story and see who they are speaking to and how frequently. <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46343" height="268" src="?cmd=ShowAsset&assetID=43165&nosurround=true&fakeExtension=.jpg" title="Conweets2" width="539">
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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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