- Addict-o-matic produces a a consolidated page with search matches across blogs, Twitter, and more.
- Alltop is an online magazine rack where you can find influential bloggers listed by specific subject and topics.
- Blogpulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs. It analyzes and reports on daily activity in the blogosphere.
- Boardreader is a search engine for forums good for fast quality searches you install for your own forum.
- Buzzstream helps you create a handy dossier about your influencers.
- Dailylife lets you search news and editorial commentary for influencers in traditional media.
- Facebook has its “search” function — so you can identify topics and the people posting about them.
- Google is still the best free tool for finding influencers, especially after the launch of Google Blog search, Google Realtime search and their “Discussion” search option.
- HubSpot Twitter grader –lets you compare the effectiveness of a Twitter profile versus any number of othersmillions of others.
- IceRocket searches social networking sites and blogs to find influencers and online posters who converse, upload, etc., about a given brand.
- Klout is easily the most respected measure of Twitter influence,allowing users to track the impact of their opinions, links and recommendations.
- Lijit lets you build relationships with online influencers and connect with their audiences.
- MentionMap is a visualiser allowing you to quickly assess the most influential people on Twitter.
- Monitter lets you, well, monitor Twitter for keywords, phrases and topics that are being discussed online.
- ObjectiveMarketer helps you identify your influencers/amplifiers across various social media platforms.
- PeerIndex helps discover authorities and opinion formers on any given subject.
- PostRank analytics lets you discover those influencers and identify which social networks give you most bang for your effort by benchmarking you against the competition.
- Pulse of the Tweeters uses data mining and sentiment analysis to mine millions of tweets and find the most influential people on Twitter.
- Socialmention features an interesting combination of metrics including reach, sentiment, passion, and strength for blogs, Twitter, news, images, video, and audio.
- Social Profile keeps you informed of other peoples’ activity in the social web.
- Social Seek helps you find out who is making the most noise about your brand.
- Technorati is considered to be the leading blog search engine, useful for finding influential blogs.
- TipTop searches for current trends and topics of interest.
- TouchGraph delploys interactive graphs to help visualise links and enable mind mapping.
- Trendistic can help you find out the what the most influential topics of discussion are on Twitter.
- Tribe Monitor measures presence across multiple social media platforms.
- Twazzup is real-time news based on Twitter, top links etc.
- Tweetlevel measures an individual’s importance on Twitter.
- Twendz helps see who your influencers are on Twitter.
- Twitalyzer looking at Twitter-based influence, impact and engagement.
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