The Web is changing. Web users have gone from a small group of a few hundred researchers and engineers to a universe of millions of people from all walks of life.
This rapid growth has led to a fascinating change in behavior. People use the Web to share opinions and insights on any topic imaginable. Their views can then spread to millions of other readers in an instant. Now the most influential writers on the Web may not be anyone from mainstream media, they may be your next door neighbor, your cousin or the person behind the counter at the coffee shop. And what if you could see in to the minds of these millions of Web users? What if you could instantly determine the most influential people on any subject? And what if you could track these findings over time? With Social Radar, now you can.
Social Radar is your ever-evolving ultimate link to the insights of the Web.
 | Access the industry's largest content collection. |
Social Radar is the industry's largest, fastest growing and most active content collection in the world. We have an in-house collection of millions of sources and over a billion articles, posts, and messages. Our system is constantly updating these sources daily, some many times per day, to make sure we do not miss any new and valuable content. This gives you true insights into the opinions, ideas, and thoughts of the masses.
In addition, this massive content collection stretches back over two years in the past, meaning you can research not just what is going on now, but what was going on then. Accessing this historical data is nearly instantaneous; no waiting hours for us to collect content or months for historical data to accumulate, as with other solutions. This can be invaluable as a comparative tool, as many say the past can help you predict the future.
 | Gauge user opinions on any subject. |
Using our own subject-specific on-request sentiment processing system, you can get a gauge for user opinions on just about any subject imaginable. You can specify a time range to filter by, as well as only looking at content from specific sources. In effect, this can act as the world's largest focus group giving you valuable feedback on what real consumers think about a brand or subject. In addition, this system will also tell you positive and negative terms and topics associated with your query, making it clear what in particular is perceived as good or bad. You can even dig right down and read those positive or negative articles yourself, to see in context just what was said.
 | Visualize influence and ecosystems. |
Textual data is great to have, but sometimes not the best nor simplest way to see what’s going on. Social Radar features a powerful visualization tool you can access within the web control panel that allows you to easily see linking and data relationships between sites and quickly spot an important one using size and color association. Why dig through a giant table when you can see it all on a beautiful interactive map?
 | View hot topics around targeted chatter. |
Find out what people are discussing around the subjects that are important to your clients or business. You can easily determine popular and influential keywords and discover what the masses feel are the most important topics associated with your brand, product, industry, or any subject, represented with trends over time. You can even specify a time range and find out what’s being talked about the most during any period of time over more than two years on demand.
 | Trend and compare subjects in an instant. |
Knowing what is going on right now is always important, but knowing what was going on is frequently just as valuable. With Social Radar’s trend charting system, you can plot and compare numerous complex phrases against each other over time, from the prior day to over two years in history, allowing you to track any discussed topic you can imagine. In addition, you can click any date and see all related post, the most popular related topics from that day and who the key influencers were to quickly track the cause of spikes in chatter.
 | Monitor buzz effortlessly with alerts. |
Why go through the work of manually tracking brands, products or anything else on a daily basis? Social Radar can alert you via e-mail or text message any day of the week if chatter around your subject spikes or drops a specified amount.
 | Create filters and focus in on important sites. |
Although we have created the most impressive collection of content to allow you to analyze chatter from the entire Web, there may be times you want to target a list of sources that are important to your efforts. Simply build a Watch List by adding websites manually or from our other tools to create a filter that can be used throughout Social Radar. This allows you to generate insights for your subjects just within these sites to get some remarkable metrics.
 | Research endless subjects with limitless freedom. |
Whether you’re managing a political campaign or maximizing the return on your advertising, Social Radar provides the tools you need to quickly and easily gain knowledge without restricting you to a certain topic, a number of keywords, or any other limitation. With Social Radar, you can look up anything at any time and instantly get results when you need them.
The Social Radar back-end is built upon a social media monitoring system. A primary source of consumer-generated content monitored by Social Radar are blogs. In a blog, one or many authors may write posts about anything from personal thoughts to professional articles, although posts within a blog often focus on a central theme such as technology, movies or politics.
In addition to harvesting content, sites often link to other sites and their articles, forming a vast network of shared information. Social Radar follows these links as they are identified, using the information gained for additional insights as well as finding new sites to monitor.
Social Radar is currently monitoring many millions of sites and storing each article, as well as much related data, to be utilized by our Web-based tools. And thanks to the frequency of our systemʼs updates, no site is ever more than 24 hours behind real-time. In fact, many of the most popular or frequently updated sites are checked for updates many times each day. All new data is accessible to our users as soon as it is made available, usually less than an hour after it is found.
Efficiency was always a top priority in the development of Social Radar. Our back-end had to be as efficient as possible to ensure our system remains reliable and responsive as our data store grows immensely over time, making sure updates can always be processed on time. Heavy optimization on the front end was more a desire for our team, and the result is fantastic. Social Radar is one of the quickest responding services of its kind anywhere. Most anything can be looked up in a couple seconds or less. Even heavily-intensive operations, such as trending several queries against each other over many months, take just a few seconds to complete.
We’re no small-time aggregator. All the tools in the world are no good if you don’t have the data to back them up. We’ve realized this from the beginning, and have strived to create an immense yet clean database of content. To this end, Social Radar has become one of the largest content collectors of its type on the internet.
We’re very proud of our system and tools, and our developers take great pride in their work. We hope you’ll enjoy using our software as much as we’ve enjoyed creating it.
