When to use
- Tracking how a story spreads across platforms
- Investigating potential coordinated inauthentic behavior
- Monitoring breaking news across social platforms
- Detecting bot activity or manipulation campaigns
- Archiving social content before deletion
What's included
Real-time monitoring
Multi-platform tracker with breaking news detection, keyword spike analysis, and trending topic identification.
Account analysis
Authenticity scoring, red flag detection, follower ratio analysis, and posting pattern evaluation.
Network mapping
Account relationship tracking, cluster detection, coordination scoring, and connected component analysis.
Narrative tracking
Claim propagation tracking, spread timeline visualization, hashtag co-occurrence analysis.
Evidence preservation
Wayback Machine and archive.today integration for archiving content before deletion.
Coordination detection
Automated scoring for timing patterns, content duplication, and behavioral signals.
Platform-specific tools
| Platform | Tools |
|---|---|
| Twitter/X | TweetDeck, Brandwatch |
| CrowdTangle (limited) | |
| TikTok | Exolyt, Pentos |
| Pushshift, Arctic Shift | |
| YouTube | YouTube Data API |
| Bluesky | Firehose API |
Coordinated behavior indicators
Timing patterns
- Multiple accounts posting same content within minutes
- Synchronized posting times across accounts
- Burst activity followed by dormancy
- Posts appear faster than human typing speed
Content patterns
- Identical or near-identical text across accounts
- Same images/media shared by multiple accounts
- Identical typos or formatting errors
- Copy-paste artifacts visible
Account patterns
- Accounts created around same time
- Similar naming conventions (name + numbers)
- Generic or stock profile photos
- Engage with each other disproportionately
Ethical guidelines
- Archive public content only
- Don't create fake accounts for monitoring
- Respect platform terms of service
- Protect sources who share social content
- Verify before publishing claims about coordination
Installation
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism.git
# Copy the skill to your Claude config
cp -r claude-skills-journalism/social-media-intelligence ~/.claude/skills/
Or download just this skill from the GitHub repository.
Related skills
Track narratives and detect manipulation
Monitoring, analysis, and investigation tools for social media journalism.
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