Monitoring Multiple Areas With Twitter
Monitoring an area or areas is a key task that any OSINTer should be comfortable with. Today we are going to be talking about how to do a geo-search within Twitter, and then a useful website that we can use to monitor multiple areas at once. Most people are familiar with how to conduct a search in Twitter, and the Twitter advance search functionality, but are not as familiar with their geo-search functionality. Let's say we wanted to look for tweets in NYC about shootings or guns. We could do a keyword search with the terms gun AND violence AND nyc but we might get a lot of noise from people across the globe using those keywords. We can refine our search by combining our keyword "guns AND violence" within a geo-bubble on Twitter. This is done through the geocode search and looks something like this: geocode:lat,long,Xkm (notice that there are no spaces after the comma) As you can see the geocode search is fairly simple to set up. All you need is the lat lon...