If you want to know what’s happening in the social web you need
social media monitoring tools. Before you reach for your wallet and
start to spend money
try out some of the free social media monitoring services. This way you will get an understanding of what is available and if you need any paid services.
This time we have collected 69 Free social media monitoring tools. In the
Group A are the services that I use regularly or seem interesting to check out immediately. The
Group B is an alphabetical list of tools for you to play with. Here we go:
Group A
Twitter account: HootSuite
Monitor and post to multiple social networks, including Facebook and
Twitter. Create custom reports from over 30 individual report modules to
share with clients and colleagues. Track brand sentiment, follower
growth, plus incorporate Facebook Insights and Google analytics. Draft
and schedule messages to send at a time your audience is most likely to
be online. HootSuite has the dashboard for your iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry
and Android.
Twitter account: SocialBro
SocialBro is an advanced solution for the management and analysis of
Twitter communities. It lets Social Media and Marketing professionals
analyze in depth what their communities are like, manage them and drive
their strategies.
Twitter account: socialmention
Social Mention is a social media search and analysis platform that
aggregates user generated content into a single stream of information.
It allows you to track and measure what people are saying about you,
your company, a new product, or any topic across the web’s social media
landscape in real-time. Social Mention monitors over one hundred social
media sites.
Twitter account: socialseek
Get all the latest tweets, news, videos, photos, and more on any topic
you want in one place. There’s a Socialseek site for everything and you
can even make your own. I found some of the news sources other tools
missed.
Twitter account: Twitter
Twitter Counter is the number one site to track your Twitter stats.
Twitter Counter provides statistics of Twitter usage and tracks over 14
million users. Twitter Counter also offers a variety of widgets and
buttons that people can add to their blogs, websites or social network
profiles to show recent Twitter visitors and number of followers.
Twitter account: wildfireapp
Measure your performance. Glean insights about the growth of your social
media fanbase on the leading social networks. With daily tracking, you
have visibility into growth trends small and large. Gauge your social
media success against others in your industry by comparing your follower
bases across the leading social networks. Alert system will inform you
of meaningful trends and activity that’s relevant to your social
presence.
Twitter account: klout
Klout’s mission is to help every individual understand and leverage
their influence. Klout measures influence in Twitter to find the people
the world listens to. It analyzes content to identify the top
influencers.
Group B
Twitter account: addictomatic
Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the latest
news, blog posts, videos and images. It’s a tool to keep up with the
hottest topics, perform ego searches and get info on what’s up, what’s
now or what other people are feeding on. You can personalize your
results dashboard and keep coming back to your personalized results
dashboard for that search. News pages provide the latest headlines on
topics such as entertainment, politics, shopping, sports and more.
Twitter account: argylesocia
We provide software to help your organization participate in
conversations with prospects and customers, drive brand awareness, and
integrate social media deeply throughout your organization. And behind
the scenes, we crunch your social activity through our big data engine
to provide you with the most actionable social intelligence in the
business.
Twitter account: antavopromotion
Antavo is a web-based marketing software to build intelligent
promotions. Supporting multiple platforms it helps to convert online
traffic into paying customers without real IT knowledge. It improves add
efficiency and increases lead generation.
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BackTweets
is a twitter time machine which enables you to search through a tweet
history for tweets that link back to your site. As a free web app,
BackTweets lets you search through a tweet archive for URLs sent via
twitter. URLs are found regardless of the form they were tweeted in and
include: full URL links, shortened URLs and URLs without the WWW prefix.
BackTweets is a great tool for tracking your social media pulse- see
how many people are talking about you, who is talking about you, and
what they are saying.
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Now
this is a free service that sends you updates via email whenever a
search term is mentioned in a comment. If you want to know immediately
when someone is mentioning you for example in a blog comment. This tool
has a feature that shows you your Twitter influencers who are sharing
related links.
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Buffer
makes your life easier with a smarter way to schedule the great content
you find. Fill up your Buffer at one time in the day and Buffer
automagically posts them for you through the day. Simply keep that
Buffer topped up to have a consistent social media presence all day
round, all week long.
Twitter account: boardreader
BoardReader allows users to search multiple message boards
simultaneously, allowing users to share information in a truly global
sense. Boardreader is focused on creating the largest repository of
searchable information for our users. Users can find answers to their
questions from others who share similar interests. Our goal is to allow
our users to search the “human to human” discussions that exist on the
Internet.
Twitter account: cotweet
Free version is for individuals and organizations that manage a small
number of Twitter accounts and need only basic features to engage and
manage their conversations. Free version includes scheduling,
conversation history, email notifications containing your latest
mentions, team collaboration tools and access to Twitter follower
profiles.
Twitter account: Cyfe
Cyfe is an all-in-one dashboard software that helps you monitor and
analyze data scattered across all your online services like Google
Analytics, Salesforce, AdSense, MailChimp, Facebook, WordPress and more
from one single location in real-time.
Twitter account: edgerankchecker
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EdgeRank
is an algorithm that ranks objects in the Facebook News Feed. Pages
with high EdgeRank Scores will be more likely to show up in the news
feed, than Pages with low EdgeRank Scores.
Twitter account: facebook
Facebook search is notoriously bad and will not find much, but if you
have nothing else to do then give it a shot. It relies heavily on your
social graph so the results you get may not be meaningful for your
target audience.
Twitter account: followerwonk
Followerwonk is a cool new social media analytics tool for Twitter. You
can use this free social media tool to search for influential bloggers
for a variety of activies including blogger outreach.
Twitter account: Google
Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results
(blogs, news, etc.) based on your searches. Enter the topic you wish to
monitor, then click preview to see the type of results you’ll receive.
Some handy uses of Google Alerts include: monitoring a developing news
story and keeping current on a competitor or industry.
Twitter account: Google
Whether you’re looking for Harry Potter reviews, political commentary,
summer salad recipes or anything else, Blog Search enables you to find
out what people are saying on any subject of your choice. Your results
include all blogs. The blog index is continually updated, so you’ll
always get the most accurate and up-to-date results.
Twitter account: gtrendz
Trends allows you to compare search terms and websites. With Google
Trends you can get insights into the traffic and geographic visitation
patterns of websites or keywords. You can compare data for up to five
websites and view related sites and top searches for each one.
Twitter account: howsociable
Free monitoring tool for measuring your brands or keywords using 32
social networking sites. HowSociable provides a simple way for you to
begin measuring your brand’s visibility on the social web.
Twitter account: icerocket
Blog Tools, create your own Trend Graphs with the IceRocket Trend Tool.
Enter keywords to see mentions trended over time. Trend Tool, enter
items to see mentions trended over time. Enter up to five queries under
Trend Terms. Type in the label you would like associated with each query
under Display Labels. Search tool for blogs, web, Twitter, Facebook,
news, and images.
Twitter account: Kred
Kred is a social-media scoring system that seeks to measure a person’s
online influence.Kred, which was created by the San Francisco-based
social analytics firm PeopleBrowsr, attempts to also measure a person or
company’s engagement, or as they call it, outreach. PeopleBrowsr hopes
that that combination can offer a more informed metric for
non-celebrities like entrepreneurs and those whom they follow and look
to for advice.
Twitter account: mention
Mention allows you to create alerts for your brand, your industry, your
company, your name or your competitors and be informed in real-time
about any mentions on the web and social web. And there is a great
limited free option.
Twitter account: asterisqdataviz
Explore your Twitter network. Discover which people interact the most
and what they’re talking about. It’s also a great way to find relevant
people to follow. The visualization runs right in your browser and
displays data from Twitter. Mentionmap loads user’s tweets and finds the
people and hashtags they talked about the most. In this data
visualization, mentions become connections and discussions between
multiple users emerge as clusters.
Twitter account: monitter
It’s a twitter monitor, it lets you monitor the twitter world for a set
of keywords and watch what people are saying. Just type three words into
the three search boxes and within seconds you’ll start seeing relevant
tweets streaming live.
Twitter account: nearbytweets
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Nearby
Tweets is a geography-centric Twitter tool (localizing Twitter) for
social networking, building customer relationships, and monitoring
real-time buzz.
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Monitor
and analyze everything on a single platform with Netvibes. Now you can
eliminate noise and get smarter, more relevant results by combining
powerful adaptive analytics with expert human curation. And unlike
“black box” analytics, our Open Corpus keeps you in complete control,
while our award-winning SmartReader makes it easy to monitor hundreds of
sources in real-time
Twitter account: NutshellMail
NutshellMail lets you organize, monitor, and interact with all your
social networks from a consolidated email digest delivered directly to
your favorite inbox on a schedule that you choose. Nutshellmail supports
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Ning.
Twitter account: omgili
Omgili Buzz Graphs let you measure and compare the Buzz of any term. The
Buzz is the percentage of the term out of the total number of
discussions Omgili covered on a specific date.
Twitter account: Peerindex
PeerIndex brings you exclusive rewards, offers and discounts because
brands want influentialpeople like you to try their products. Ever
recommended something and been retweeted or got a like? Your influence
increases when people respond and share your posts. Peerindex analyse
millions of likes, retweets and comments daily to calculate everyone’s
influence in social media.
Twitter account: Pinerly
Pinerly.com is the easiest way to market your visual content onto social
media sites, starting with Pinterest. Users can schedule pins, receive
real time analytics on which pins are most effective, use multiple
accounts, and bookmark. The company also churns out best practices data
for content creators and brands on the platform.
Twitter account: Pinpuff
Pinpuff is a free-to-use tool, aiming to accurately measure Pinterest
user’s influence, reach and virality on Pinterest, assign a Pinfluence
score and monetary values of their pins. For businesses, our aim is to
provide an easy to use platform which can be used to create, manage and
analyze their Pinterest related promotions/marketing activities and
seamlessly engage Pinfluencers.
Twitter account: pinterest
Find out how many people are pinning from your website, seeing your
pins, and clicking your content. Pick a timeframe to see how your
numbers trend over time.
Twitter account: Plagtracker
In this technological age, a plagiarism checker is essential for
protecting your written work. A plagiarism checker benefits teachers,
students, website owners, and anyone else interested in protecting their
writing. Our detector guarantees that anything you write can be
thoroughly checked by our online plagiarism software to ensure that your
texts are unique.
Twitter account: Pluggio
Pluggio is a secure, web-based system to help individuals, businesses,
organizations and marketers easily grow and manage their social media
profiles. It includes a suite of tools to organize and keep track of
multiple accounts, get more followers, and automate the finding and
publishing of excellent targeted content.
Twitter account: quintlyapp
Quintly is the professional social media benchmarking and analytics
solution to track and compare the performance of your social media
marketing activities. Whether you are using Facebook, Twitter or both,
our tool visualizes and checks your social marketing success,
benchmarking your numbers against your competitors or best practice
examples.
Twitter account: samepoint
SamePoint.com tracks millions of conversations, taking place across in
blogs and social media sites. SamePoint converts discussions into web
pages, or permalinks, and organizes them within a tag cloud. SamePoint
can serve as the nexus where the conversations meet, providing a single
place for all discussions on a specific topic.
Twitter account: seesmic
Seesmic is a suite of social media management and collaboration tools
that provide everything to build their brands online. Seesmic has
applications on every platform, including mobile, and a marketplace of
third-party plugins. Seesmic gives you social media monitoring, updating
and engaging in real time.
Twitter account: Smetrics
Using Sentiment Metrics social media monitoring tools you can monitor
and measure social media and gain actionable business intelligence,
allowing you to understand how people view your brands and products ,
identify your brands influencers and engage with them if you choose.
Twitter account: yahelc
Track your shares, likes, tweets, and more. Enter a web address of a
page and find out how much it has been shared in different social
networking and bookmarking sites. Currently includes Facebook, Twitter,
Digg, LinkedIn, Google Buzz and StumbleUpon.
Twitter account: Shoork
ShoorK allows you to analyse the statistics from your Facebook page in
depth, to optimize the management of your relationship with your fans,
to analyse the Facebook strategies of your competitors, and much more!
Twitter account: socialbuzz
Social buzz is a real-time search engine for Facebook, Twitter and
Google+. It is designed to provide a different kind of user experience
for curious users and deep analytics for the marketing professionals,
such as: posts types, top links/domains, keywords, sentiment, top users
and posts.
Also the service has a quick possibility to change your search locale, filter search results by content type and popularity.
Twitter account: socialoomph
Schedule tweets, track keywords, extended Twitter profiles, save and
reuse drafts, view @mentions and retweets, purge your DM inbox, personal
status feed — your own tweet engine, unlimited accounts.
Twitter account: socialpointer
SocialPointer is a real-time social media marketing platform for
marketing agencies and individuals, It enables them to track, monitor
and respond in real-time to relevant social mentions and user
conversation. SocialPointer lets you monitor, listen, respond and
engage.
Twitter account: steprep
StepRep provides an overview of the conversations people are having
about your business online. Anytime your business is mentioned, anywhere
on the web, you’ll hear about it. Sources are scanned continuously to
bring you the most complete and up-to-date data on how your business is
perceived. The data is broken down and analyzed in reports that can help
you target your marketing and increase your online customer engagement.
Twitter account: technorati
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Search
Technorati and note the authority and rank of the blogs listed in the
results. Authority measures the site’s standing and influence in the
blogosphere. Rank shows what position this authority gives the site. It
is not a very good tool for lesser known blogs as it misses a lot of
great sites.
Twitter account: tinker
Tinker helps you stay on top of your favorite events by showing you the
latest buzz from Twitter and across the social web. Create or follow an
event stream by choosing a keyword. An event could be anything: the
Oscars, a new iPhone release, a movie premiere, a book launch, or a
Superbowl party. Tinker also lets you search for the top news, topics
and places people are talking about.
Twitter account: twittiptop
TipTop Search is a Twitter-based search engine that helps you discover
the best and most current advice, opinions, answers for any search, and
also real people to directly engage and share experiences with. A search
on any topic reveals people’s emotions and experiences about it, as
well as other concepts that they are discussing in connection with the
original search.
Twitter account: ThinkUp
ThinkUp is a free, open source web application that captures your posts,
tweets, replies, retweets, friends, followers and links on social
networks like Twitter and Facebook. With ThinkUp, you can store your
social activity in a database that YOU control, making it easy to
search, sort, analyze, publish and display activity from your network.
All you need is a web server that can run a PHP application.
Twitter account: topsy
Topsy is a real-time search engine. Topsy indexes and ranks search
results based upon the most influential conversations millions of people
are having every day about each specific term, topic, page or domain.
Topsy’s algorithms identify influencers for any searchable criteria,
using these influence calculations to rank results. It displays results
for related terms and articles, trending topics, identifies experts
(influencers) and shows you trackback pages for everything in its index.
Twitter account: twazzup
Twazzup is real-time news platform. It allows you to filter the news out
of live Twitter content. It’s useful for understanding who are the
influencers on a given topic and what are to trending sources.
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Tweetalarm
allows you to get email alerts when someone tweets about your company,
your product or anything that interests you. We have to mention that it
is still in beta and some errors might occure. But dot let that stop you
trying that out.
Twitter account: tweetbeep
Keep track of conversations that mention you, your products, your
company, anything, with hourly updates. You can keep track of who’s
tweeting your website or blog, even if they use a shortened URL, Great
for online reputation management, catching all your @replies and
@mentions.
Twitter account: TweetDeck
TweetDeck is a social media dashboard application for management of Twitter accounts.
TweetDeck interfaces with the Twitter API to allow users to send and
receive tweets and view profiles. It was the most popular Twitter
application with a 23% market share as of June 2009, following only the
official Twitter website with 45.7% share for posting new status
updates.
Twitter account: TweetPsych
TweetPsych uses linguistic analysis algorithms (RID and LIWC) to build a
psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets.
The service analyzes your last 1000 tweets. It works best on accounts
that are operated by a single user and use Twitter in a conversational
manner, rather than simply a content distribution platform. Created by
Dan Zarrella.
Twitter account: tweetreachapp
TweetReach measures the impact of social media conversations. Use it to
understand how many people were reached by tweets about a topic on
Twitter.
Twitter account: waggeneredstrom
The twendz Twitter-mining Web application uses the power of Twitter
Search, highlighting conversation themes and sentiment of the tweets
that talk about topics you are interested in. Using the twendz
application gives a glimpse into what’s on people’s minds and their
emotional reaction. Mining Twitter conversations alerts you to brewing
trends, conversation topics and points of view.
Twitter account: TwentyFeet
TwentyFeet is an “egotracking” service that will help you keep track of
your own social media activities and monitor your results. We aggregate
metrics from different services, thus giving you the full picture of
what happens around you on the web – all in one place.
Twitter account: Twitalyzer
Analytics for social relationships. Twitalyzer knows who is in your
social network and where they live, allowing you to be more targeted in
your outreach efforts. Twitalyzer provides Twitter’s most robust
benchmark reporting, ranking Twitter users ten different ways. Authored
by Eric T. Peterson author and blogger.
Twitter account: twitrratr
Twitrratr built a list of positive keywords and a list of negative
keywords. It searches Twitter for a keyword and the results are
cross-referenced against adjective lists, then displayed accordingly.
Twitter account: grader
Twitter Grader lets you check the power of your Twitter profile compared
to millions of other users that have been graded. Just enter your
Twitter username and you’ll get an instant grade and report. It looks at
a variety of factors including the number of followers, power of those
followers and the level to which you are engaging the community.
Twitter account: twitter
Use Twitter Search if you need to find out what’s happening in the world
beyond your personal timeline. Twitter Search lets you search, filter,
and otherwise interact with the volumes of news and information being
transmitted to Twitter every second. Twitter Search helps you filter all
the real-time information coursing through our service. Advanced Search
allows you to create your queries using many advanced operators.
Twitter account: JeffClark
A StreamGraph is shown for the latest 1000 tweets which contain the
search word. You can also enter a Twitter ID preceded by the ‘@’ symbol
to see the latest tweets from that user.
Twitter account: Veooz
(pronounced as “views”) helps you to get a quick overview, understand
and draw valuable insights from the views/opinions expressed by hundreds
of millions of users on different social media platforms like Facebook,
Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, News Sites, Blogs, etc. We track
views/opinions expressed by social media users from across the world on
people, places, products, movies, events, brands and many more.
Twitter account: whathashtag
WhatHashtag is service that allows you to find the most used Twitter
hashtags for the keywords you enter. Search for the keyword and you will
automatically get the most popular hashtags used worldwide to discuss
your topic. The result retrieves the last 1.000 tweets related to your
keyword, and orders hashtags by frequency of use. Using WhatHashtag you
will gain visibility when tweeting your opinions, being read beyond your
followers in the most effective way.
Twitter account: whounfollowedme
Who.unfollowed.me is a service that helps you track your unfollowers, in
real time, without waiting for a DM, or email. It allows you to check
your unfollowers on your schedule, every 15 minutes, without waiting for
an email or a direct message.
That’s all for now. If you know of a great free tool then please let us know in the comments.
This post was updated by Dreamgrow’s own Timo Sikka and Kersti Küla.
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