... . Other plans are $49 and $199 per month. 3. Monitter If your small business is on Twitter, keeping an eye on the ... of your industry from folks 1,000 miles away. Monitter lets you search Twitter for keywords, but filters them by ... category, industry and company from within your home territory, where it matters. Monitter is free to use. 4. HootSuite For anyone who runs a Twitter account ...

... by user / location) has the ability to come in handy on the networking side of the game - it's not at mass levels yet, but could be one to get your head around sooner rather than later. 5. Monitter - - always makes this list for the fact that it is the best way of monitoring key words / conversations relevant to you which you can then refine by location / radius. 6. Popurls - - The ' ...

... Salesforce.com uses the tool Get email Twitter alerts with TweetBeep Use TweetScan to search for key words combined with a user Test drive monitoring up to three key words in real time with Monitter Distinguish positive from negative tweets with Twitrrater Look up who's following you in TwitterKarma Try Twittervision to see the global nature of this tool Look up daily top influencers ...

... easy to track conversations and brand mentions. BackType is a real-time, conversational search engine. It scans the Web to find out what  people are saying about topics and Web sites that interest you. Monitter enables marketers to listen to the Twitter conversations taking place about their brand in real time. Enter the keywords you want to search, and all tweets with those keywords are at your ...

... do we listen better? Spend time in a non-business setting with your customers. Hear their concerns. Be a friend. Use technology. Twitter tools like the web-based monitter and Seesmic Desktop let you keep an eye on what people are saying about you. Create Facebook Pages so customers can reach you in as many ways as possible. Unless you’re unleashing news of a ...

If you don’t have patience for a list of ten, or agree that it’s just too arbitrary, here are my favorites from the ReadWriteWeb sponsored list (Backify): 1. Monitter: allows you to search Twitter posts by such things as distance from a location — like your business address. 2. Hootsuite: allows more than one person to post to a Twitter account, so you can easily share the ...