I want the ability to tell it to let me know IMMEDIATELY - by push, text, email, pop-up, my choice - when someone or an organization/business posts to Facebook (or other social platforms).
NOT soon. NOT in a feed (I can use a tool like Social News Desk for that - and am talking to them about this type of alert). Not an eventual Google News Alert. NOW. It can't be just reporters who'd make use of such things.
When one follows dozens or hundreds of sources, you can miss things by hours, having visited at just the wrong time. When I go down a search rabbit hole or even Perplexity, asking for such tools, mostly it talks ones that are all about being notified right away when ONE'S OWN posts get a reply, or shared etc. It's not what I mean. When our police dept. posts something socially (especially when they don't feel it's worthy of a news release or haven't got around to it, or don't have enough hours in a day to craft one), catching it is... hit or miss, depending on when you go look. Surely in 2025 this would be of use to others!
Options would abound - maybe you don't want to be notified of every post, but when anything on this or that topic goes viral, to a set engagement level. Maybe that would be for the Pro version. But just a basic "let me know" tool? I think it'd go far.
Edit: Facebook does have some of these capabilities, but look how far you have to drill down to do it "in-house." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2mGw2qE5ho&t=146s - and it's cumbersome. Not talking about friends, anyway - it should be possible for ANY social feed, not just ones we're following or friending...)
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