The document lists various online tools for social media searches, crowdsourcing, curation, and photo verification. It includes resources for finding tweets, users, and connections across different platforms like Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook, as well as tools for creating public forms and maps. Additionally, it provides methods to verify and analyze images by examining their metadata and usage across the web.

1. Tap into the Crowd Resource List
By Mandy Jenkins | @mjenkins
Updated 9/2014
// Content-Search Tools
Enter search terms to see the last 500 tweets, filter/drill
down into related terms, hashtags and links.
http://twxplorer.knightlab.com/
Search older tweets and photos.
http://topsy.com/advanced-search
Real-time keyword search, displayed in a visual format.
http://twazzup.com
Searches Twitter, Facebook and Google+, order by
popularity. http://social-searcher.com/social-buzz/
See all of a user’s tweets on one page.
http://AllMyTweets.net
Real-time keyword search across many social networks,
plus ability to save searches to Excel.
http://Socialmention.com
Search Instagram photos and videos by keyword.
http://web.stagram.com/search/
Search public status updates. http://openstatussearch.com
// People Searches on Twitter
Search for Twitter users by biography, keyword and their
connections to others. http://twiangulate.com
Search for Twitter users by location and
industry/keyword. http://twellow.com
Search for social media accounts and contact for other
journalists. http://muckrack.com

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// Source-Search Tools
Top search box on facebook.com, dig in upon results to
search by education, employer, location and more.
Search for people, filter by location, profession, etc.:
http://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?adv=true&trk=adv
srch
Search and follow companies:
http://www.linkedin.com/company/home?trk=hb_tab_
compy
Ask questions and find related experts. http://quora.com
Insights on all public Twitter accounts http://foller.me/
Search for connections across LinkedIn, Facebook and
Gmail. http://gohachi.com/
Discover social networks of those who email you in
Gmail. https://rapportive.com/
// Location Searches
Premium geolocation-search tool. Can search down to
the building, seeing located tweets and images. $
http://geofeedia.com/
Mobile and desktop geolocation-search tool. Can search
down to the building, seeing located tweets and images.
http://coeverywhere.com

3. Though the mobile app version is used by those who play
this check-in game, you can search for venues and
“mayors” (those who have been to a location the most
times) on the website with an account login.
http://foursquare.com/
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// Crowdsourcing Tools
Create public forms, surveys and other shareable
documents. http://docs.google.com/
Create an automatic map from a Google spreadsheet and
form. http://mapalist.com/
Create a mobile-friendly reader-assisted map.
https://crowdmap.com/
Simple blog interface allows for user submissions.
http://tumblr.com/
// Curation Tools
Save links of any sort to access from anywhere, anytime.
Install the Diigo plugin on your browser to take full
advantage of its ease. https://www.diigo.com/
Compile tweets, YouTube videos, links, social photos,
text and more into stories you can embed on your
website. Install the Storify plugin for Chrome or Firefox
to make it easier to add items. http://storify.com/
Arrange text, images, videos, tweets and more into an
embeddable timeline out of Google Spreadsheets.
http://timeline.knightlab.com/
Create always updating, embeddable section fronts
around topics or events using social accounts, social
searches and other feeds. https://www.rebelmouse.com/
Build visually compelling collections of related media for
an embeddable and original alternative to a boring story
package. http://newhive.com/

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// Photo-Verification Tools
This tool lets you view the available Exchangeable Image
File (EXIF) data on any image via an uploaded file from
your desktop or a URL from the Web. This may include
the camera/scanner used, date taken and settings.
http://regex.info/exif.cgi
This online tool allows you to see where else a particular
image is in use across the Web. This is handy for seeing
whether your image is being used without permission, as
well as finding hoax photos used previously.
http://tineye.com/
See how/whether an image has been Photoshopped. If
part of an image’s scan stands out or looks lighter than
the rest, the image may have been edited. Be sure to use
the highest quality image you can find.
http://fotoforensics.com/