These tools can help you to track things such as how many people are mentioning you, your organization, and your work in various online channels, as well as who is clicking on and sharing your links or updates, or trends relating to specific issue areas such health care reform, environmental, or human rights.
Various tools below track keywords, clicks, and other activity information on Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and more. Includes utilities that support the actual tracking tools, such as URL shorteners.
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#hashtags in 13 toolboxes
add to my toolboxProvides tracking and statistics for each #hashtag appearing in Twitter feeds
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act.ly in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxA website for petitioning on Twitter and tracking your social impact and change.
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BackTweets in 4 toolboxes
add to my toolboxBackTweets allows you to search for links in Twitter that have been shortened using services like bit.ly and TinyURL
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BackType in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxBacktype is a tool for comments. Search comments left on blogs and websites, follow feeds that alert you to specific comments and share comments with friends around the web.
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bit.ly in 31 toolboxes
add to my toolboxA simple URL shortener. Generates shorter URLs than TinyURL, and has redirection. Useful for Twitter, and supports tracking number of clicks, traffic sources, and time-of-day patterns.
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Biz360 in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxSocial media monitoring platform
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BlogPulse in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxA trending tool, BlogPulse allows one to search the blogosphere and see trends related to keywords, ratings and much more information.
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BoardReader in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxMessage boards and forums are easily searchable through BoardReader allowing you to find topics, images, articles and comments instead of laboring through each message thread by itself.
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Breaking Tweets in 4 toolboxes
add to my toolboxBreaking Tweets puts a spin on world news through the use of Twitter.
Founded in January 2009, the site has two main goals: 1. to help people enhance their worldview or perspective of global events; 2. to increase dialogue about international news and make the world smaller through conversation and interaction, both on this site and on Twitter.
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Filtrbox in 6 toolboxes
add to my toolboxSocial media dashboard tool that offers real-time monitoring of social media activity.
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FriendFeed in 9 toolboxes
add to my toolboxMashup of RSS feeds for popular sites such as YouTube, flickr, twitter, and yelp.
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Goodbye, Buddy in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxGoodbye, Buddy! is an unfollower monitor for Twitter. Follow @goodbyebuddy on twitter and then visit goodbyebuddy.com
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Google Alerts in 45 toolboxes
add to my toolboxHave Google email you notifications of news, new web results, or new blog posts containing your desired search term.
tagged: alerts, email, email-alerts, email-notification, google, lasatech_web, news, notification, search, search-engine, tools -
HootSuite in 22 toolboxes
add to my toolboxA website that helps manage multiple Twitter profiles, pre-schedule tweets, and measure your success.
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IceRocket in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxReal time search across blogs, Twitter, web, MySpace, news and images
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Mentionmap in 8 toolboxes
add to my toolboxEasy-to-use interactive tool for exploring your Twitter network. Discover which people interact the most and what they're talking about.
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Nambu in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxThis integrated social messaging app is good for checking out Twitter because it saves your searches and refreshes them automatically. Unfortunately, it's only available for Mac.
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Netvibes in 17 toolboxes
add to my toolboxWe like to use NetVibes at Aspiration for our Social Media Dashboard. Basically you can pull any amount of RSS feeds and have them all in one place. So I like to track twitter mentions, google mentions, nptech blogs as well as when we're mentioned in blog comments. The one-stop-shopping aspect makes it very addictive and a real time save.
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ping.fm in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxPing.fm is a simple and free service that lets you update all your social networks from one interface!
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Radian6 in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxPricey web and social media dashboard that allows users to monitor conversations and information about desired topics.
tagged: analysis, conversations, dashboard, hosted, information, lasatech_socmed, listening, media, monitoring, social, topics, tracking -
scoopler in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxSearch engine that merges real-time tracking of Twitter and other live feeds with traditional news and media search.
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Social Media Firehose in 4 toolboxes
add to my toolboxThis is a big, fat, wide-reaching net of social media searches to alert you every time your brand or product is mentioned by anybody on a slew of social media sites, including flickr, twitter, friendfeed, digg etc.
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Social Mention in 11 toolboxes
add to my toolboxSocial Mention allows you to search various social media outlets at the same time, giving you information on keywords and how they show up in resources like blogs, news, comments and microblogging sites.
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SocialToo in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxSocialToo enhances your social capabilities through Twitter and other networks.
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Technorati in 24 toolboxes
add to my toolboxThe jury's still out on whether Google Blog search or Technorati is better. I like to use both just in case.
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Techrigy in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxTracking tool for social media.
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Trendrr in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxReal-time social and digital media tracking, including blogs, location, microblogs, search, social networks and video.
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Tweet Scan in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxTool to search recent Twitter messages for specific words or phrases.
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TweetBeep in 5 toolboxes
add to my toolboxTweetBeep emails alerts based on what people are Twittering about a specific organization, product or anything. Similar to Google Alerts but for Twitter.
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TweetDeck in 21 toolboxes
add to my toolboxAn application that aims to evolve existing functionality of Twitter by breaking down Twitter feeds into more manageable bite sized pieces. Track Twitter feeds and social media activity.
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Twemes in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxProvides RSS feeds per Twitter hashtag, enabling hashtag tracking in other social media dashboard tools.
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TwitterAnalyzer in 10 toolboxes
add to my toolboxAdvanced Twitter analytic system calculates daily tweets, users who are retweeting your messages, and their unique reach
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Twopular in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxA simple Twitter aggregator that helps you follow trends.
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What the Trend in 4 toolboxes
add to my toolboxFind out what's trending on Twitter and why. For each trend, a quick explanation of WHY it's trending, latest tweets, it includes Flickr photos and news stories.
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Wikio in 4 toolboxes
add to my toolboxWikio is an information portal with a news search engine that searches press sites and blogs.
With Wikio you can very easily create pages to follow the breaking news that interests you. Our info is continuously updated!
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Xinu Returns in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxA website that gives extensive information on social impact and presence as well as information on the website.