It allows you to easily track and measure what people are saying about you, your company, a new product, or any topic across the web’s social media landscape in real-time. Social Mention monitors 100+ social media properties directly including: Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube, Digg, Google etc. Social Mention able to alert users via emails/RSS. & the users may choose what level of notification he/she wants. Users can be alerted any further mentions.
Google Alerts – is a content monitoring service, offered by Google. Automatically notifies users when new content from news, web, blogs, video and/or dicussion groups matches a set of search terms selected by the user and stored by the Google Alerts service. Notifications can be sent by email, as a web feed or displayed on the users iGoogle page. Google alerts will notify users about new contents if there’s any. The notification will be via email, web feed or iGoogle which can be choose by the users. Users also be able to preview what kind of content are there available before deciding whether to subscribe anot.
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