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Some of the more general networks, although there are thousands of them. Also consider the special social networks devoted to sharing video (YouTube), music (Imeem) or photo's (flickr), as well as Usenet, Listserv's and forums. NEW 1jun2015: moved SocM search engines to 'social media search engines' under 'search engines.'



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top choices

Most popular one, more then 1.2 billion accounts. Popular info only, family affairs, groups, unions, hobby's and general interest.

Aimed at business users to find peers, competitors, jobs, opportunities, experts.

Mini blogging network, useful for monitoring trends, news. Real-time. With the search engine at search.twitter.com . Also try Twitter Trendsmap

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maps

Published twice a year (June and December). Also offers the older maps so you can see the conquest of Facebook for world domination. See what other networks are used in the world. Lists the top 3 per country.

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international

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checkin, checkout, check check.

Google's challenger to Facebook. If you have a Google account, you automatically have a Google Plus profile. Hardly used anymore

People, Music, Videos and Radio. Searchable.

"..store text for a certain period of time. [...] mainly used by programmers to store pieces of sources code or configuration information [...]. The idea behind the site is to make it more convenient for people to share large amounts of text online." Often used by international hacker groups to post press messages or hacked/leaked information.

Pin interesting stuff on your wall. More and more being used to share articles and used as an RSS reader.

Mainly an online addressbook that automatically syncs and updates your contact information.

Social News service. Users can post content in a link or by self written text. Other users then vote the post "up" or "down" to determine the ranking on the front page. Also searchable.

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Dutch

Eng.: Where Are You (now). For sharing online diaries made by people who are on the road, on travel, on holiday etc. Intended for travellers who wish to update the home front on there whereabouts. About 265.000 accounts, and 2.6 million travel stories.

Social networks

Dashboard, portals

Monitoring and managing multiple social media (Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Foursquare etc.), based on keywords. Also see Monitter.com . Tweetdeck lookalikes.

Create your own dashboard to monitor your topic of interest or search using keywords.

Owned by Twitter, real-time updates for Twitter, Facebook. Also posting. Web-based only. Bought Seismic. Alternatives: Hootsuite, Monitter, Gremln.

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Introduction: Some tools to use multiple social networks more effectively, such as browser plugins or specialised SN browsers. WARNING: most free services demand access rights to your profiles that may be too much for you.



Measures the influence of users on SN, calculating a 'Klout score'.

Supports Facebook and Twitter. Requires a Facebook account to sign in.

Personalised, real-time newspaper based on your Twitter account. Searchable for other Tweeted newspapers.

Owned by Twitter, real-time updates for Twitter, Facebook. Also posting. Web-based only. Bought Seismic. Alternatives: Hootsuite, Monitter, Gremln.

A waterfall-style of tweets. Add a search term and tweets start falling down. Each Search gets a different colour in the "waterfall" making it easy to follow. Hover over a tweet to pause the falling. Search options include: Lists, Search terms (with or without hashtags), Geolocation. You can also exclude terms, services and users from your search. Must take a look at the Feature page . Requires a login with your Twitter account.

Management tool for multiple social media.

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Analyses of followings and followers on Twitter of your own account only..

Analyse followers. WARNING: wants to update profile and post tweets.

Online sentiment analysis tool for current events, companies, products and people. Search news or Twitter.

Search Twitter history, as far as Twitter allows you to.

Provides a social media search and analysis service, sentiment analysis, top keywords used, top users, real-time.

Takes a username to return statistics on number of tweets over time, tweet density, daily/hourly tweets, interface used, replies and retweets. 11feb14: Very slow, non functional.

Trending topics on Twitter, in the Netherlands only.

Powerful Twitter analytics tool. Analyse any Twitter account, except private ones.Provides backup capabilities.

Publishes a timeline graph plitting the number of followers, following, tweets over time. WARNING: needs access to your profile and wants to post tweets for you. Also try Twenty Feet (registration required).

Stats data on Twitter users: dozens of different answers to questions on number of tweets, first tweets, followers, mentions, lists, retweets, etc.

Finds the first tweet on a topic or keyword. Slow.

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Geoplots

Global, real-time map of tweets. Tweets flash and leave, counters below the map do calculations and show hashtags.

Accepts a keyword and plots the geo location of tweeters on a map.

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Twitter

Official Twitter search engine. The list of operators is just below the search box

Twitter ID and username converter. Find the Twitter handle for a Twitter ID, or, find a Twitter ID for a Twitter handle. Search on a Twitter ID: twitter.com/intent/user?user_id=16600244

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By Neuro Productions. Takes a username to graphically display the network of followers. Very slow.

Analyse Twitter accounts and their followers/following.

A Twitter visualisation tool, displaying the mentions and hashtags used the most in recent tweets by a single user.

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Metasites

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Annotated listing. January 2012.

Annotated listing, January 2011.

Extensive list (approx.225) of media monitoring companies and tools, fee-based as well as for free.

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postponed

No longer active, commercial only, then updates just once every 60m. Statistical tool, accept a full Twitter search query to return an overview with tweet volume over time, top users, tweet vs retweet, top words, top URLs and source.

Supports Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and many others. Announced that they are no longer supporting updates in 2011. Still downloadable at a.o. Filehippo

Mainly Dutch social network. In Dutch. Offline since 02 Dec 2013.

Real-time search engine, searches Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. Updates automatically.(Temporarily?) out

Was very useful to find "respected" people that are placed in Twitter lists. You could even interview people via Listorious. Completely disappeared and replaced by its sister site MuckRack (see below)

Ping.fm was acquired by Seesmic which in turn is now acquired by HootSuite 2012.