Social media monitoring news: Trackur offers free version

Know Trackur? It’s one of many social media monitoring tools. And it’s a paying one. Until now. Trackur just announced that it’s launching a free version on its blog.

The blog entry is short and simple: the company “is delighted” to launch Trackur Free and says it’s doing it to “help everyone monitor their brand/reputation, so now you don’t have an excuse”.

Have to check that out and see what features the free version offers. It will not be for today though. If anyone feels like testing, here’s the link.

Is it the best free social media monitoring tool around or is it a way for Trackur to get more customers?

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Partnership between Yahoo and Twitter

Yahoo, the arch rival of Google is all set to make its website and search more compelling. Yahoo will now show a wider range of Twitter updates in its search results.

Like Google and its other rivals, it will now make use of the rapidly growing craze of posting tweets on Twitter.

The step came quite late, when compared to Google and other search engines who have started using Twitter a year back. The good thing is that it happened at last.

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