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SEARCH.TWITTER.COM: See trends on Twitter’s officialsearch page. Hot trends on Twitter appear on the searchpage and on the Twitter homepage, and clicking any willbring up a feed of the public conversation

+ Link: http://search.twitter.com/

TWIST: For those who are visual, Twist provides a graphicalinterface to see trends and keywords on Twitter. It not onlylists out the hot trends over the last few hours, days, andweek, but it provides embeddable charts and the abilityto compare trends

+ Link: http://trendistic.com/

TWITTERULY: Twitturly is another way to track top-sharedURLs. The interface allows users to see all of the activetweets that have shared a specific link

+ Link: http://twitturly.com/

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TWEETSTATS APP: Graphs your Twitter Stats including -tweets per hour, tweets per month, tweet timeline andreply statistics

+ Link: http://tweetstats.com/

GOOGLE TRENDS: Reflects what keywords people aresearching on a daily basis

+ Link: http://www.google.com/trends

GOOGLE MODERATOR: Google Moderator acts as a quickway to survey an audience on a variety of topics byconnecting people through gmail

+ Link: http://www.google.com/moderator/#0

SURCHUR: An interactive dashboard covering searchengines and most social media sites

+ Link: http://surchur.com/

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CRIMSON HEGAXON: An Enterprise-level social mediatracking tool. The algorithm used for the VoxTrot OpinionMonitor helps determine what consumer sentiment istoward your brand based on social media mentions

+ Link: http://www.crimsonhexagon.com/

SENTIMENT METRICS: Created to help businesses listen tothe social internet, understand it, and participate in it

+ Link: http://www.sentimentmetrics.com/

TINKER: Real-time conversations from social mediasources such as Twitter and Facebook. Allows search forthe top news, events, topics and places that people aretalking about

+ Link: http://www.tinker.com/

TWEET FEEL: A real-time Twitter sentiments search-engine+ Link: http://www.tweetfeel.com/

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BOARD TRACKER: Tool for scanning and tracking withinforums. Discover what people say, the trends and what yourcompetitors do, protect the reputation of your brand,engage your audience and find social media metrics

+ Link: http://www.boardtracker.com/

SAMEPOINT: Social media search and analytics platforms tohelp brands monitor and measure consumer feedback. Inthe real-time web track and analyze the online "buzz"around your brand

+ Link: http://www.samepoint.com/

UBERVU: Track and engage with user sentiment across thelikes of, FriendFeed, Digg, Picasa, Twitter and Flickr. UberVUbring you community metrics and analytics to the post fromall over the Web - blogs

+ Link: http://www.ubervu.com/

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DELICIOUS: Social Bookmarking service, which means youcan save all your bookmarks online. Delicious keeps all yourbookmarks in one place so you will never lose track of yourbookmarks again. You can classify with tags that are simplywords you use to describe a bookmark

+ Link: http://www.delicious.com/

DIGG: A place for people to discover and share contentfrom anywhere on the web

+ Link: http://about.digg.com/

BLOGHER: The largest community of women who blog. Acurated selection of authentic voices. BlogHer is acommunity and media company created in partnershipwith women in social media

+ Link: http://www.blogher.com/

GOOGLE BLOG: A network of company blogs that covertopics as diverse as Googles’s renewable energy policies,product updates, developer challenges and codesnippets, and information for advertisers and partners

+ Link: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

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YAHOO! SIDELINE: Watch, search and monitor the Twitterpublic timeline in real-time

+ Link: http://sideline.yahoo.com/

TECHNORATI: Search engine and monitoring tool for user-generated media and blogs

+ Link: http://technorati.com/

GOOGLE ANALYTICS: Enterprise-class web analyticssolution that provides rich insights into website traffic andmarketing effectiveness

+ Link: http://www.google.com/analytics/

FACEBOOK STATUS LIVE FEED: See posts and activity fromyour friends in real-time

+ Link:http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=162536657130

TAWEET: Social calendar and event promotion platformbuilt to interact with Twitter

+ Link: http://taweet.com/

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HOOT SUITE: Manage your updates on multiple socialnetworks through HootSuite: schedule to Twitter, Facebook,Facebook Pages, LinkedIn, Ping.fm, WordPress, MySpace,and Foursquare. Track statistics

+ Link: http://hootsuite.com/apps

LATER BRO: You can schedule recurring Facebook updatesor schedule tweets from multiple Twitter accounts

+ Link: http://laterbro.com/

TWAITTER: Enables you to schedule Twitter messages once oron recurring basis, translate your tweets into any languageand register your blog or business RSS feed with twaitter andhave your new posts automatically sent to twitter

+ Link: http://www.twaitter.com/

FUTURE TWEETS: Allows you to sign in using Twitter OAuth.Choose your time zone and get to tweeting

+ Link: http://futuretweets.com/

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DYNAMIC TWEETS: Dynamic Tweets allows you toschedule tweets in advance by the hour or for aspecific time and date

+ Link: http://www.dynamictweets.com/

TWEET U LATER: Simple Twitter app to schedule tweetsand/or automate Twitter posts in 10 minutes, 10 monthsor 10 years from now

+ Link: http://www.tweet-u-later.com/

TWEETSCHED: A program which allows you to scheduletweets to send to twitter in advance. It is a desktopprogram which will allows you to easily schedule tweets.It runs quietly in your systray while you are working, andnotifies you when any communication is made to thetwitter website

+ Link: http://www.daveandrews.org/tweetsched/

TWUFFER: Tool to schedule tweets. There are two lists oftweets, the queue for scheduled tweets and the list ofsent tweets

+ Link: http://twuffer.com/

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GIST: Online service that helps build strongerrelationships. Connects inbox to the web, allows youget business-critical information about key peopleand companies

+ Link: http://gist.com/

KEOTAG: Buzz Monitoring, tag search multipleengines, tag generator and social bookmark linksgenerator

+ Link: http://keotag.com/

NETVIBES: All in one place and always up-to-date.Instantly creates many different dashboards to trackall the information

+ Link: http://www.netvibes.com/en

TWITSTRA: Simple and fast notification service forTwitter users. When someone @mentions the username, Twitstra notifies the user by e-mail

+ Link: http://twitstra.appspot.com/

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UGO TWITT: Service that will e-mail notifications when yourhandle is tweeted. Simple to read with a thumbnail imageof the tweeter, the full text of the tweet and the option toreply

+ Link: http://www.ugotwitt.com/

TWEET ALARM: Keyword notification service. When e-mailscome through, they offer details of all the mentions in thebody, complete with thumbnail images of each Twitteruser

+ Link: http://www.tweetalarm.com/

TWILERT: Web-based Twitter app that actually offersgeneral keyword alerts, and can potentially be used as asimplified monitoring tool

+ Link: http://www.twilert.com/

YAHOO! PIPES: Pipes is a powerful composition tool toaggregate, manipulate, and mashup content fromaround the web

+ Link: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

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FRIEND FEED: Scans all FriendFeed activity+ Link: http://friendfeed.com/search/advanced

GOOGLE ALERTS: Daily or real-time alerts emailed to youwhenever a specific keyword (chosen by you) ismentioned

+ Link: http://www.google.com/alerts

TWEETDECK: Manages Twitter account and offers keywordsearch allowing one to see what people are saying aboutyou

+ Link: http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/

TWEETS QUEUE: Lets you build a queue of tweets for yourTwitter account. The tweets in the queue will be twittered ina configurable time interval. This is great for collectingtweets while you are on an internet trip or you have a lot ofthings on your mind but you do not want to blow all thetweets out at once

+ Link: https://tweetsqueue.appspot.com/

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BACKTYPE: Tool for monitoring blog comments. Backtype is aservice that lets you find, follow, and share comments fromacross the web. Whenever you write a comment with a link toyour web site, Backtype attributes it to you

+ Link: http://www.backtype.com/

COCOMMENT: Tool that will help you manage your commentsacross the web

+ Link: http://www.cocomment.com/

YACKTRACK: Lets you search for comments on your contentfrom various sources, such as Blogger, Digg, FriendFeed,Stumbleupon, and Wordpress blogs. For instance, if youcomment on a blog, you can locate other people who arecommenting on that same blog post and rejoin theconversation

+ Link: http://yacktrack.com/search

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GOOGLE READER: Constantly checks your favorite news sitesand blogs for new content. Has built-in public page to easilyshare interesting items with your friends/family

+ Link:https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=reader&passive=1209600&continue=http://www.google.com/reader&followup=http://www.google.com/reader

TWENDZ: Uses the power of Twitter Search, highlightingconversation themes and sentiment of the tweets that talkabout topics you are interested in. As the conversationchanges, so does the twendz application by evaluating upto 70 tweets at a time. When new tweets are posted, theyare dynamically updated, minute by minute. Using thetwendz application gives a glimpse into what’s on people’sminds and their emotional reaction

+ Link: http://twendz.waggeneredstrom.com/

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BLOG PULSE: A service of Nielsen BuzzMetrics. It analyzesand reports on daily trends within the blogosphere. It is anautomated trend discovery system for blogs

+ Link: http://www.blogpulse.com/

HOW SOCIABLE: A simple way for to measure a brand’svisibility on the social web

+ Link: http://www.howsociable.com/

FACEBOOK ADS TRACKER: Reach your target customer,choose an audience, deepen your relationships(Facebook page, “like” button, community) and controlyour budget (set a daily budget and pay only whenpeople see or click on your ad)

+ Link:http://www.facebook.com/advertising/?campaign_id=194417723019&placement=broad&creative=5811888632&keyword=facebook+ads&extra_1=4c7a0b47-af83-9f68-fb2d-00001e3b790e

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TWEETMEME ANALYTICS: Offers insight into the anatomy ofyour retweeted stories, with a high-level dashboard view,and deeper data on all tweets, retweets, clicks, domains,users, and locations. It’s akin to Google AnalyticsGoogleAnalytics, but with a very narrow focus on Twitter data,which could prove key to measuring social media ROI orunderstanding how and why stories perform well

+ Link: http://my.tweetmeme.com/analytics

POSTRANK ANALYTICS: This suite of tools measures socialengagement on other platforms and services. Instead ofjust a raw number, you can actually see the messagesand comments from other sites that contribute to yourstats – key for sentiment analysis

+ Link: https://analytics.postrank.com/

VIRAL HEAT: Social media monitoring service thatincludes a sentiment breakdown for Twitter mentions

+ Link: http://www.viralheat.com/

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COTWEET: Comprehensive Web-based social mediaengagement, management and reporting solution thathelps companies of all sizes engage, track and analyzeconversations about their brands on Twitter andFacebook. One of the many features is the ability toschedule tweets by time and date. CoTweet can also beconfigured to send updates to Ping.fm

+ Link: http://cotweet.com/

OMNITURE: Omniture has a slew of services available forbusinesses, including components that track Facebookand Twitter metrics

+ Link: http://www.omniture.com/en/

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