Newswhip is a social media monitoring platform that predicts upcoming trends and popular topics of interest. Their tracking resources provide user data on platforms such as X (formerly known as Twitter), YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit. The tool gathers data by utilizing a user-friendly interface to perform an analysis of key initial trends within existing online data. Newswhip also provides other key features such as predictive analytics on the future engagement of a given story, the identification of key players in particular online conversations and historical analysis. NewsWhip has a Data for Democracy Program, which is a program designed to support projects run by researchers and fact checkers working on democracy issues by giving them discounted access to NewsWhip’s tools.
Newswhip is used by journalists, private corporations, government agencies, and civil society organizations. The company offers a Data for Democracy Program, which supports researchers and fact-checkers by providing them discounted access to NewsWhip’s tools.
Newswhip is designed to help monitor and analyze vast amounts of information on social media platforms. The tool can enable users to understand and respond to misinformation, emerging narratives, and election trends. In today’s age, it is crucial for private corporations, civil society organizations, government agencies, and journalists to reliably track media trends and public discourse. Newswhip offers advanced analytics that provides information on both current and historical data. Newswhip Analytics explores data spanning timeframes greater than 90, focusing on historical data from eight years back, whereas Spike focuses on periods less than 90 days. The interface is relatively user-friendly and can be optimized with the identification of relevant social profiles and hashtags.
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