7 tools for social search

These are some of the tools we use in competitor research for our customers - to analyze competitors and understand what they are doing and what they plan to do next.

1. BackTweets - search historical tweets.
2. Boardreader - search forums and social communities.
3. FollowerWonk - advanced Twitter search.
4. Omgili - search forums, news stories and blog posts.
5. Opinion Crawl - free sentiment analysis tool.
6. Twiangulate - social mapping tool for Twitter connections.
7. Twitter Search - Twitter's own search interface.