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Ask HN: Do you use social listening tools to aggregate news?

3 points by pinter69 1y ago

If yes - which tools do you use and how?

JohnFen 1y ago
Honest question: what are "social listening tools"?
- pinter69 1y ago
  Tools that track posts on social media - x, reddit, facebook, youtube etc. and you can configure in them to look for specific keywords that interest you to alert you
  - JohnFen 1y ago
    Ah, OK. Thanks for the explanation!
    - pinter69 1y ago
      Yw. I just wished people would have responded, curious to find new methods
      - JohnFen 1y ago
        I don't get my news from social media, otherwise I would have had some sort of substantial response myself.
joshwaller7 1y ago
I personally don't, but I run a tool called ForumScout and you could literally just spin up a listener for whatever news-related keyword you want to track and it will add all mentions to your feed. And you can add an 'AI filter' where you can explain to the AI what posts you want/don't want and it will check every single post and make sure it matches your criteria before adding it. So for example if you want to track mentions of "Trump", your AI filter could say "Only show me posts discussing his economic policies. Avoid any mention of his family or personal life", and that's what you'd get. I guess it would be useful if you want some very specific stuff, but plain old news aggregators work just fine for me :)
- pinter69 1y ago
  What examples do you have for a good old news aggregator? And regarding your product - do you have webhooks or alerts via email only?
  - joshwaller7 1y ago
    Only email alerts for now - never thought about webhooks but I could add if you'd find it useful. The best news aggregator I've found is called News Minimalist: https://www.newsminimalist.com/ https://www.newsminimalist.com/ It ranks by significance so it does a great job at filtering out all the noise.
    - pinter69 1y ago
      Oh nice! Was looking for something like this for regular news browsing. I did get a bit of anxiety - a lot of scary headlines
      - joshwaller7 1y ago
        There's a 'positive' tab that only shows positive news! https://www.newsminimalist.com/?sentiment=positive&from=4&to=10 https://www.newsminimalist.com/?sentiment=positive&from=4&to...

3 points by pinter69 1y ago

If yes - which tools do you use and how?

JohnFen 1y ago

Honest question: what are "social listening tools"?

pinter69 1y ago
Tools that track posts on social media - x, reddit, facebook, youtube etc. and you can configure in them to look for specific keywords that interest you to alert you
- JohnFen 1y ago
  Ah, OK. Thanks for the explanation!
  - pinter69 1y ago
    Yw. I just wished people would have responded, curious to find new methods
    - JohnFen 1y ago
      I don't get my news from social media, otherwise I would have had some sort of substantial response myself.

joshwaller7 1y ago

I personally don't, but I run a tool called ForumScout and you could literally just spin up a listener for whatever news-related keyword you want to track and it will add all mentions to your feed. And you can add an 'AI filter' where you can explain to the AI what posts you want/don't want and it will check every single post and make sure it matches your criteria before adding it. So for example if you want to track mentions of "Trump", your AI filter could say "Only show me posts discussing his economic policies. Avoid any mention of his family or personal life", and that's what you'd get. I guess it would be useful if you want some very specific stuff, but plain old news aggregators work just fine for me :)

pinter69 1y ago
What examples do you have for a good old news aggregator? And regarding your product - do you have webhooks or alerts via email only?
- joshwaller7 1y ago
  Only email alerts for now - never thought about webhooks but I could add if you'd find it useful. The best news aggregator I've found is called News Minimalist: https://www.newsminimalist.com/ https://www.newsminimalist.com/ It ranks by significance so it does a great job at filtering out all the noise.
  - pinter69 1y ago
    Oh nice! Was looking for something like this for regular news browsing. I did get a bit of anxiety - a lot of scary headlines
    - joshwaller7 1y ago
      There's a 'positive' tab that only shows positive news! https://www.newsminimalist.com/?sentiment=positive&from=4&to=10 https://www.newsminimalist.com/?sentiment=positive&from=4&to...