The Journo Requests feature helps you effectively monitor #JournoRequest alerts from around the web for ones related to niches you are interested in.
What is a Journo Request?
Journalists often need to find experts to quote in their stories.
One way journalists find these experts is by putting a request out on social media.
Our tool collates these requests from all over the web, and will alert you when a request that's relevant to your expertise is posted.
How it works
First, enter you area of expertise into the search bar.
When you make a search, you will see a list of past tweets that you would have been alerted to with the search you've made.
You can then decide to turn on email alerts for the search.
If you do, you will be emailed every time a new tweet that matches your search appears.
It works using a vector search, which means it doesn't look for tweets including the keyword you searched for, but instead searches for tweets which have a similar semantic meaning to your search term.
For example if you searched 'cooking expert', you will see results returned for journalists looking for chefs.
Or this search for 'astrology' returns a journalist looking for how star signs influence our spending habits.
Choosing the best keywords
Because of how the vector search works, you may need to try a few keyword searches before you find the best one(s) for your needs.
Here are a two examples of searches you might make that will return no results, why that happens, and what searches you can make instead.
1) Words that are not recognised as words e.g. 'ai'
When you search 'ai' in lowercase, you won't see any results. This is because 'ai' isn't recognised as an word by the vector search.
Instead, you need to search 'AI' in capital letters, or 'artificial intelligence'. These searched will return the tweets you are looking for.
2) Ambiguous words e.g. 'sustainable'
Sustainable can have many meanings. For example, it could be related to environmental sustainability or it could be related to how sustainable a current business model is.
Because the vector search is unable to determine from this search what meaning you are after, it will return no results.
If you were interested in environmental sustainability, a better search to make would be the unambiguous eco-friendly.
In general, more descriptive searches will surface better results for you.
But always try a few different search options before settling on your final alert search.
If you're making searches and are struggling to find one that fits your needs - feel free to reach out to us and we will guide you in the right direction.