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Using geo-search to find relevant conversations

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Using geo-search to find relevant conversations

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- [Instructor] Hootsuite offers geo-search options. They'll let you find social media conversations happening in specific locations. Geo-searches locate public posts from anyone who has marked a post with their location. These searches are useful for everything from tracking reactions to regional events to monitoring feedback on a new business location. On Twitter, you can search for tweets sent within a specific radius of your IP address or search a specific location's geo-code. To set up a geo-search for Twitter, begin by adding a stream and selecting Search. Next, type in relevant search terms for your business and click the arrow to find tweets within a 25-kilometer radius of your location. You can edit this radius to capture a larger or smaller area. But let's say you want to listen in on Twitter conversations happening in another city, country, or even neighborhood, for example to monitor what's being said about the…

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