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title: "10 Social Media Listening Tools"
description: "10 Social Media Listening ToolsHootsuite has a great list of social media listening tools, many of them free. Need a way to monitor mentions of your brand, author, titles? For the most part the paid..."
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# 10 Social Media Listening Tools

10 Social Media Listening Tools
Hootsuite has a great list of social media listening tools, many of them free.

Need a way to monitor mentions of your brand, author, titles? For the most part the paid tools are expensive and only allow for 5 keyword queries per month on the basic plan. By expensive I mean starting at $39 per month. That said, there are some free tools that are useful for one-off searches or to help assess what social media listening features you need in a paid tool.

Hootsuite has a great guide and list of tips here: (https://blog.hootsuite.com/social-listening-business/)

### **Free Tools **

1. BuzzSumo (https://app.buzzsumo.com/alerts/about) or see what’s trending (https://app.buzzsumo.com/research/trending)
2. Instagram search by hashtags
3. Sentiment Viz (https://www.csc2.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/tweet_viz/tweet_app/)
4. Social Mention (http://socialmention.com)
5. Social Searcher (https://www.social-searcher.com/)
6. Twitter Advanced Search (https://twitter.com/search-advanced)

### **Paid Tools**

1. Keyhole (https://keyhole.co)
2. Mention Mapp (https://mentionmapp.com)
3. Mentionlytics (https://mentionlytics.com)
4. Sprout Social (https://sproutsocial.com/features/social-media-listening)