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This is my own personal list of SOCIAL MEDIA ‘trackers’ – websites that assist me in understanding what people are saying and thinking about my brands…

http://technorati.com – Who’s saying what. Right now in BLOGS

http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/187381 – here’s a blog by Social Media Today which covers off the below tools;

http://www.alltop.com/- you can read more about what ALLTOP is at http://alltop.com/about/ but basically they say they arn’t a search engine, that they are instead more like an online magazine rack.

http://www.socialmention.com/- Real-time social media search and analysis.  This one shows what’s been said about your brand across the online universe.

http://www.bing.com/twitter/search – real time twitter search, giving you up to the minute news on what’s being said about your brand.

Social Media Today had KLOUT in their top 10, but I list KLOUT in an earlier blog, so not going to repeat myself.

http://backtweets.com/ – allows you to search for tweets with URL links in them.  Try the advanced search too.  Not sure how this works with shortened links though?

Wordle and Google Trends are also mentioned, but I know about both of these, so not going to write them up.

http://blogpulse.com/ – this site interestingly looks to be the handy work of ACNielsen – the global market researcher… very interesting as they aren’t usually forthcoming with information for FREE!

http://www.alexa.com/ – Free traffic metrics, search analytics, demographics, and more for WEBSITES!  Take a tour of ALEXA here

http://www.swixhq.com/SWIX.html – aptly named SOCIAL MEDIA ROI on the meta tag – SWIX claims it is like Google Analytics for Social Media… only problem is it’s only free during it’s Beta (trial-test stage).   And to use it you have to sign up… which I have not yet done.

More to come and I find more social media brand trackers…

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