Scout Labs News & Articles

Lithium, a new-ish player in the Social CRM circle, has just made a significant investment. The acquisition of Scout Labs has left them a whole US$ 20 million dollars lighter in stock and cash. Meanwhile, social media startup founders are seeing dollar signs. 

There’s reason to believe in social media monitoring startup Visible Technologies (news, site). The company recently raised US$ 22 million in Series C funding, totaling their pot to a nice US$ 34 million. The dollars came from Investor Growth Capital, while previous backers Centurion Holdings, Ignition Partners, In-Q-Tel and WPP, also participated.

Endless analysts, "social media experts" and pundits are telling you that it's imperative that you develop your Twitter presence. Yes, yes, yes...but what can you actually get out of it and what are the best tools with which to do this? We'll cleverly side-step the first question, thank you. As for the tools, here are what we consider the top 5 twitter tools worth some of your precious time.