Monitor Your Social Media Presence in just 10 Minutes

Monitor all your social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram and more with the help of these free online tools to step-up your business performance

- Raj Kumar Maurya

The role of Social Media is gaining importance both from a personal as well as business perspective. It has become incredibly important to monitor your business social media presence. Businesses need to understand people’s opinion about their brand and what type of services they want in near future. Here, we list some free online tools which enable you to monitor and analyze your Social Media accounts. Some of them can even be used to auto post and schedule your posts.

We are also going to show, how to use one of them to monitor your social media.

1.    Cyfe:  Cyfe is an all-in-one dashboard that helps you monitor and analyze data found across all your online services, including Google Analytics. It is a cloud-based social monitoring tool with both free and premium services. In a free account, you can manage up to five accounts.

2.    Quintly: This tool is very helpful when you want to track and benchmark you own numbers against your competitors to derive an optimal social media strategy. It helps you to centralize all your social media data at one place with clean and neat design. In the free account, it allows you to monitor Facebook only.

3.    Twazzup: This tool is very useful for beginners, who want to monitor Twitter. In this tool you just need to enter the name of the person whom you want to track and you instantly get real-time updates, i.e., the most active top influencers, top RTD photos and links, and most importantly, the top 10 keywords related to your search.

4.    Addictomatic: Addictomatic focuses on a variety of platforms such as Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, WordPress, Bing News, Delicious, Google, Ask.com, etc. It is a social media examiner tool that lets you see all the buzz or conversations around your brand online, at any time.

5.    HowSociable: It is a very useful tool for measuring yours and your competitors’ social media presence. It offers free tracking of 12 social sites, including Tumblr and WordPress. However, if you’re interested in 24 more, then you have to activate pro account. It allows you to see which social media platforms work best for you and which ones need further development.

6.    IceRocket: The best thing of this tool is that it offers monitoring of blog, Twitter and Facebook in 20 languages, along with results graphs. It allows you to choose the periods of time you are interested in monitoring and you can keep an eye on the activity of 200 million blogs which are in their database. They also provide the possibility of finding the latest trend terms related to your search.

7.    TweetDeck: TweetDeck is a very good option for scheduling tweets and monitoring your interactions and messages, as well as tracking hashtags and managing multiple accounts.

8.    Social Mention: It is the one of the good real time search platforms to monitor over one hundred social media sites as it analyzes data in more depth and measures influence with 4 categories: Strength, Sentiment, Passion, and Reach.

9.    Thoughtbuzz: This is the one place from where you can monitor your all accounts and analyze the data generated by social media platforms. In the free account, you can only monitor Facebook and Twitter. It also offers an auto post and scheduling option.

10.    Hootsuite: Hootsuite covers multiple social networks, including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, WordPress, Foursquare, and Google+. It provides weekly analytics reports as well.