TwXplorer — A smarter way to search Twitter. TwXplorer, a new social-media research tool launched today by the Knight Lab, started with one journalist who told us he had a problem. Peter Slevin, a Medill faculty member, has been working on a book about Michelle Obama. As part of that work, he periodically tracks her place in the “global conversation” by searching Twitter for references to the first lady. What he gets back: a long list of tweets mentioning Michelle Obama. He can do little more than scroll through them, jot down notes about what he finds and tweak his search terms. As a way of keeping tabs on what people are saying about the first lady, it isn’t very effective — or efficient.
“The problem when searching Twitter for a very common term such as ‘Michelle Obama’ is that there are few if any filters on what you get back,” Slevin said. “Especially in breaking news situations, you find yourself scrolling through a very long and undifferentiated list of tweets.” TwXplorer adds value to Twitter searches in different ways. Gregsantos : Watching premier of @HuffPostLive...
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