It’s worth noting here you can also copy existing Probes from other users and re-appropriate the parameters to suit your own requirements, changing the minimum number of ‘Likes’, for example. Here, you can see I created a Probe for posts from the TNW Shareables channel with more than 20 Facebook LIkes.

Then, it will appear in your main feed along with any other ones you’ve subscribed to. Then, stipulate what keywords you wish to track and how many Facebook Likes, for example, is your minimum requirement. You then have to include the RSS URL for each site you wish to monitor, separated by a comma. To create a Probe, you can do so simply by keywords, Facebook Likes or YouTube Likes.

For this, you’ll need to create an account, after which you can search for probes by keywords (and subscribe to them), or create your own. Without creating a account, all you can really do is subscribe to probes created by other users.Ĭlick ‘Subscribe’ next to anything that takes your fancy, and you’ll be presented with a stream containing very specific news stories.īut the real value here lies in being able to create Probes yourself. For example, if you only want to receive feeds on “YouTube videos on Reddit with more than 1,000 Likes”, you can create a Probe that taps both YouTube and Reddit to present this information directly in your feed.

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