One of the key activities in getting the most out of social media is finding relevant people, blogs, conversations, wikis, forums etc. This is a list of sites that will help to find those shiny needles in the giant haytstack of the web.

Unified Social Media Search

These sites aggregate search results from multiple sites and services.

Blog Directories and Search

Directories are a good way to find blogs by category although search is usually a better indication of the relevance of a blog’s content.

Twitter Directories

These sites help you find Twitter users based on categories. The downside is that you can only find people who have added themselves to the directories but they can be a quick way to find relevant people.

24 Responses

  1. Great list, I’d add the (very recent) BackType.com/connect and BackTweets.com tools, which will display all of the conversation for a given URL regardless of URL shorteners, etc. used on a variety of Social Media services and Twitter respectively.

    • Dave says:

      Good call, I’d not seen either of those (I’ve been using BackType for awhile too – surprised not have heard about it)

  2. Dave says:

    Another one to add to the list: http://tweepsearch.com – keyword search for twitter users based on the contents of their short bio.

  3. Nat Bourre says:

    Thansk for the great list! I have not heard of some of these so I am looking forward to testing them out. One that I use frequently for myself and my clients is Twilert.com.

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