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SaySo
A personalized news feed from vetted creators.
Bellingcat’s TikTok Hashtag Analysis Toolset
A Python library that searches TikTok posts by hashtag
Downr
Fast, free online media downloader that lets you paste a link and instantly save videos, audio, or images from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and many other platforms without requiring sign-ups or annoying ads. It’s designed to be simple and lightweight, supporting a wide range of social media and content sites for offline access to your favorite media. Many users appreciate its clean interface and ease of use, though performance can vary depending on the URL and platform.
SnapInsta
Download photos, videos, reels, stories and profile from Instagram
SOCIAL MEDIA AI TOOLS
Meta: Guidelines for Labeling AI-Generated Images on Social
Rolli
This expert search database also features Information Tracer, which tracks disinformation spreaders on social media.
Social Listening GPT
A ChatGPT custom GPT to gain insights into audience sentiments and trends. Gain deep insights into audience sentiments and trends with AI-driven social listening. Optimize your brand strategy with actionable data analysis and tailored recommendations
Nota
Nota offers a suite of assistive AI tools that can reformat human-created content into multiple different text, audio and video formats. You can use tools individually or plug them into your CMS for seamless integration. It creates SEO headlines, social posts, short videos, image generation and generates newsletters from stories. Paid tool.
Hook Generator GPT
Use AI for Twitter thread creation
Rolliapp Elections Dashboard
Tracks US presidential social media usage and sentiment.
Vidyo
Create social media clips from longer video
Landscape Social Media Image Resizer
Sprout Social tool resizes images to fit social channels perfectly.
Taplio
Use AI AI to grow LinkedIn contacts
Postiz
Streamlines social media management
SaySo
A personalized news feed from vetted creators.
RedactAI
Create personalized LinkedIn posts
TikTokio
A 100% free online TikTok video downloader. It aims to help people download TikTok videos (musically) without watermark.
SnapInsta
Download photos, videos, reels, stories and profile from Instagram
Taplio
AI-powered tool for LinkedIn growth.
Fast Company: Aggie Use AI to Manage Small Business Social Media
Pew Research Center: Eight Facts About Americans and TikTok
Gumloop
Everything you need – data, apps, and AI in an intuitive drag and drop interface to automate your workflows. The Reddit Insights Generator workflow will analyze and summarize Reddit community posts.
Echo News Intelligence
An AI-powered news intelligence platform that monitors Telegram, X, and the web in real time, bringing all sources into a single unified view. It automatically clusters related updates into one coherent story, helping journalists quickly understand developments without noise or duplication. With custom feeds, instant translation, and AI-assisted editing, Echo enables professionals to detect emerging stories early and act with confidence.
Bellingcat’s TikTok Hashtag Analysis Toolset
A Python library that searches TikTok posts by hashtag
Taplio
Grow your LinkedIn audience
Comment Generator
Builds custom Instagram comments
Plot
Unlock consumer insights from social media videos
TweetDelete
Kill old tweets and likes
Tipsheet: Latest Tools for Investigating with Telegram
Frase
SEO content generator. Paid plans start at $15.
EasyGen
A LinkedIn post generator that creates algorithm-optimized posts
Text Blaze
Tool and Chrome extension offers Easy-to-use templates with endless customizability and powerful automation.
Postwise
Write and schedule posts with AI-drieven X/Twitter and LinkedIn tool
Tweet Hunter
Analytics, X/Twitter tweet writer, schedule, etc.
Pomelli
A Google AI tool that lets you place your website URL in it to get bespoke ad campaigns with image and video assets. Takes about 5 minutes.
OSINT Framework
Open source intelligence tool poses a list of questions and helps you track down a username, photo, person’s full name from a social account, etc.
Social Blade
Analytics made easy. Track how many X/Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Insta gram followers did an account gain?
Bouncer
Email verification platform that checks for bots, similar to Botometer. It actually “bounces” bot accounts off your platform.
Sill
Top news shared by the people you trust
SlideStorm
Creates TikTok slideshows in seconds with AI
The Verge: Twitter’s heir apparent isn’t X or Threads — it’s Bluesky
List of Journalism Thinkers on Bluesky Social
This “starter pack” list makes it easy to add groups of people to your lists.
Word Swag
Creates stunning visuals to perfectly complement your words. So you can focus on crafting your message, while we take care of the design. Good for social media posts.
Pinterest Video Download
A free online tool that allows users to download videos and images from Pinterest in high quality without any installation required. This fast and secure Pinterest video downloader enables users to save Pinterest videos in MP4 format or download Pinterest HD images with just a few simple steps. The tool works on all devices, ensuring users can easily download their favorite Pinterest content anytime, anywhere.
SocialAF
Generates and schedules social media content.
ytZolo
An AI-powered platform that helps YouTubers and content creators generate viral video ideas, engaging scripts, SEO-optimized titles, and high-performing content faster. The platform combines AI research, trend analysis, and automation tools to simplify the entire YouTube content workflow.
Postiz
AI social media scheduling tool
QuotePop
This app from Jeremy Caplan at Wonder Tools will turn any text or quote into an image file.
Buzzabout
AI-driven insights from social media discussions
Downr
Fast, free online media downloader that lets you paste a link and instantly save videos, audio, or images from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and many other platforms without requiring sign-ups or annoying ads. It’s designed to be simple and lightweight, supporting a wide range of social media and content sites for offline access to your favorite media. Many users appreciate its clean interface and ease of use, though performance can vary depending on the URL and platform.
Brand24
An AI-powered social listening tool that enables users to monitor and analyze online mentions.
Humva
Create free customized avatars with templates for social media, etc.
FameFlame
AI-powered social media tool
Hoox
Build social media videos
Assindo
Manages calls and social networks with AI
MeetMinutes
Transform your pre-and-post meeting workflows with AI note-taking
XspaceGPT
Download Twitter Spaces and get AI-generated summaries and mind maps.
Search Whisperer
Henk van Ess tool that helps you find deleted tweets. Updated in fall 2024.
Lolarchiver
This tool helps find usernames and bio history of Twitter users active between 2011 and 2023.
How to Extract Followers from a Private Instagram Account
Reddit Archive
Search Reddit posts
Toutatis
Python tool that will pull emails, phone numbers and more from Instagram accounts.
WhatsApp Mobile Checker
See if a phone number is connected to a WhatsApp account.
Refire Design
Pricy tool that helps with design for mobile and desktop apps, social media and more
Bellingcat Auto Archiver
Preserve video evidence in seconds. Quickly download social media clips and archive them in a Google Sheet
Creative Twitter Search Guide
A GPT in ChatGPT
Taplio
Boost LinkedIn followers, reach, engagement, etc..
Reach AI
AI agent to automate outreach on LinkedIn
Twitter List Search
A tool by Henk Van Ess to search for Twitter lists using keyword(s).
Tweet Machine
A script which retrieves links to the deleted (and other) tweets and replies of any Twitter user from WayBackMachine.”
Scripe
Turns unstructured voice and text inputs into personalized LinkedIn posts.
Follwr
Social media on autopilot. solution that empowers you to create social media content, automate your calendar, and achieve time-saving efficiency using AI-powered tools
Revid
TikTok growth tool that creates short videos
Fliki
Generates TikToks
Tufa
AI tool that streamlines social media management
Symphony
TikTok’s AI Studio, with new features for advertisers
Dottypost
Create posts and grow your LinkedIn audience
Ideogram
Build visuals for your social media campaigns
Hypefury
AI assistant that helps grow and monetize your X/Twitter account
Typeshare
Digital writing platform
Blackmagic
Advanced X/Twitter platform, scheduling, etc. Free with paid plans starting at $11 monthly.
Brandblast
Automates social media content creation and posting
NSWR
Respond to social media comments with just one click
Syllaby
Creates your ultimate social media strategy in 10 minutes
BuzzClip
Generate viral TikTok AI UGCs in 60 seconds
WithEden
AI-powered social plugin to reply on any webpage in one click to generate tailored comments
Taplio
Writes and schedules personalized content for you, saving hours per week and growing your LinkedIn brand easily.
Narrative BI
A generative AI analytics platform that provides insights on all your marketing
Feedhive
Create, schedule, publish, and easily manage your social media content at scale
Pygma
AI social media manager
Quick Mock
Turn any job on LinkedIn into a mock interview
VisualSitemaps
Build visual sitemaps to help with site structhttps://journaliststoolbox.ai/social-media-and-seo/ure and SEO
Tiledesk
Deploy AI-powered conversations across social channels
LinkedIn Post Wizard
Transforms ideas into LinkedIn posts
Brand24
An AI-powered social listening tool that enables users to monitor and analyze online mentions across various sources
Social Bee
Manage your social media accounts from one place—create, schedule, publish, and analyze
Powder
Use this tool to convert livestreams into social media clips
Twemex
A browser extension that uses Twitter’s advanced search.
Yep.so
Free, no-code landing page builder powered by AI
Lifepaths
Takes your LinkedIn profile and interests and maps future life paths
PeopleAlsoAsk
Uses AI to find what the public is asking
OnlyBots
A social network exclusively for AI bots
Junkipedia
A tool that tracks social media accounts from 12 different platforms.
Postli
Create LinkedIn posts from more than 100 templates
Ocoya
Social media, content marketing and copywriting – using AI. It’s like having ChatGPT, Canva and Hootsuite at your fingertips.
Taplio
Create better LinkedIn content, schedule your posts at the right time, build new relationships and monitor all your results.
Keyframes Studio
AI-driven social media video creation tool. Pricing plans start at $9 a month; free demo.
Microsoft Designer
Text-to-design tool. Design social media text card, web design, etc. using nothing but a text prompt.
AIphoria.world
A social network for creating artwork and sharing AI-generated content
Predis
Social media post generator
Reddit Archive
Search interface gives you several settings for searching Reddit.
This tool from Henk Van Ess helps you dig in archives to find killed tweets from celebs, politicians, others.
Expand a shortened link into its origin link to see if it could be a dangerous site full of malware.
Opus
Turn your lengthy videos into viral short clips. Freemium account.
Recruitryte
Generates keywords and boolean strings to help you search for relevant profiles across LinkedIn, GitHub and elsewhere. Free tool
Instant Username
Username search tool
Podify
Grow your LinkedIn audience with this AI-powered tool
Prismix
Transform social media
Uizard
Visualize, communicate, and iterate on wireframes and prototypes.
Argil
Grow social media with your AI clone
aiCarousels
Create viral carousels for Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok.
Predis.ai
An all-in-one social media production tool. Create videos and time posts.
Taplio
LinkedIn growth tool with AI suggestions
Unite.ai: 10 Best AI Tools for Social Media
Highperformr Suite of Social Media AI Tools
Highperformr AI Twitter Bio Generator
Highperformr AI Facebook Bio Generator
Highperformr AI Instagram Bio Generator
Highperformr AI TikTok Bio Generator
Highperformr AI Threads Bio Generator
Highperformr AI LinkedIn Headline Generator
Highperformr AI LinkedIn Summary Generator
Highperformr AI Instagram Caption Generator
Highperformer AI Twitter Post Generator
SCRAPING SOCIAL MEDIA
Drippi
Scrape thousands of leads from Twitter/X
ExportComments.com
Easily exports all comments from your social media posts to Excel file.
ExportData
Twitter data export tool. Allows downloading historical tweets since 2006, exporting unlimited followers and followings, and gathers historical Twitter trends in 63 countries and 400 cities.
Github: Haccer Tweep Scraper Tool
Twint
An advanced Twitter scraping & OSINT tool written in Python that doesn’t use Twitter’s API, allowing you to scrape a user’s followers, following, Tweets and more while evading most API limitations.
Tinfoleak
Twitter account info, including devices and operating systems used. Lack locations, hashtags, mentions and likes.
Twitter List Capture
This Noah Liebman tool helps you grab a Twitter list.
Clay
Automated, self-fulling spreadsheet that you can use to take Twitter handles or LinkedIn URLs and have it fill out people’s information into a searchable spreadsheet. Then search for keywords from bios, locations, or sort by follower account to see who you want to reach out to. The tool also has a data scraper built-in as a Chrome extension and can pull tables from websites pretty reliably.
Knight Lab: Beginners Guide to Collecting Twitter Data
Ultimate Facebook Profile Scraper Tool
Treeverse
This Google Chrome extension makes finding all participants in a Twitter thread as easy as clicking on a tweet.
Tweepy Tweet Scraper
From Dr. Ken Blake, this tools lets you search recent tweets, using search terms you specify, and save the tweets. along with key metadata, in an Excel file on your computer. Updated April 2021.
twtData
Makes it easy for journalists to perform detailed research on topics or even their own articles, source breaking news and dig up historical data.
Tools for Collecting and Analyzing Twitter Data
Slides and resources from NiCAR 2018.
PhantomBuster
Helps with data extraction from social media and websites. Pull lists of influencers from LinkedIn and top 10 articles to add to outreach lists, but you can also automate things like following people on Twitter or liking Instagram posts.
ANALYTICS TOOLS
10 Free Tools to Help You Understand your Social Media Audience
Definitive Guide to Social Media Metrics
MediaCloud
Suite of tools for analyzing media use.
Social Rank
Identify, organize and manage your Twitter and Instagram followers. Great for tracking Instagram analytics for personal accounts.
SocialBearing
Free Twitter analytics/search for tweets, timelines and Twitter maps. Find, filter and sort tweets or people by engagement, influence, location, sentiment and more.
Sprout Social: Nine Instagram Analytics Tools
TapInfluence
Marketing tool for Instagram users.
Telegago Search Engine for Telegram
SnapMap.com
Find Snapchats by location on this map.
Iconosquare Instant Instagram Audit
Guide to Instagram Analytics
How to find metrics and insights using Instagram Analytics (only for business accounts). Use Social Rank for personal Instagram analytics.
Eight of the Best Social Media Analytics Tools of 2018
Social Media Examiner: How to Find and Remove Fake Twitter Followers
Agora Pulse
Content scheduling and analytics, it lets you run contests, quizzes and promotions.
CookPal AI
An AI kitchen assistant that allows users to effortlessly import recipes from platforms like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, or Pinterest. It automatically formats imported recipes into clean steps and provides hands-free smart voice guidance during cooking. With features like digital cookbook organization and meal planning, CookPal AI helps users cook with confidence and manage their recipe collections efficiently.
GIJN Toolbox: Searching Social Media
GETTING STARTED: BLUESKY
Many journalists have left X/Twitter for Bluesky after the election. Here is a collection of resources to help you get started. They come from a variety of colleagues, including Craig Silverman and Robb Montgomery. We’ll be updating these resources in the coming weeks.
Journalism in the Clear Blue Sky
A good starter primer from Robb Montgomery
Skybridge
Seamlessly connect your social accounts and transfer X followers/following to Bluesky.
Poynter: Pros and Cons of Leaving X/Twitter for Bluesky or Threads
GitHub: A List of All Known Tools Available for the Bluesky Platform
How to Geek: How to Moderate Your Own Feed on Bluesky
The Verge: Cool Stuff You Can Do with Bluesky
Bluesky Blog: Tips and Tricks for Bluesky Search
Convert a Bluesky Starter Pack into a List
An effective tool for building out lists.
Bluesky Blog: Domain Handle Tutorial
Learn how to connect your account to a personal or organizational domain name.
Import Members from One Bluesky List to Another
Block Party | Deep Clean Your Social Media
Track Bluesky’s Growth Rate With This Counter
Deck Blue
Like Tweetdeck but for Bluesky. Bluesky is compatible with Buffer, too.
Bluesky Starter Pack Directory
Search journalism and media to find lists of good journalists to follow.
SkyZoo
Searchable database of starter packs in Bluesky.
AltMetric
Measure analytics on social platforms, including Bluesky.
SkyZoo: Bluesky Global Stats
Get stats on specific users, too.
SkyZoo: Directory and Search for Starter Packs
Sky Follower Bridge
From Silverman: Chrome plugin to help you find and follow people on Bluesky that you follow on Twitter
Social Media Users Don’t Realize Their Power
Bluesky Future of Journalism Worldwide Starter PackAI Supremacy: How to Use Notebook LM for Personalized Knowledge Synthesis
Bluesky for Journalists: Getting Verified
CJR: Journalists are Leaving X for Bluesky: Will They Stay There?
ZDNet: Eight Bluesky Tips Every User Should Know
PCMag: Getting Started on Bluesky
Stats on Bluesky User Activity
How to Covert a Bluesky List to a Starter Pack
How to Merge Bluesky Starter Packs
Blue Mackuba: Bluesky Tools List
National Weather Service Bots for Bluesky
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