Enterprise Level Social Media Tracking With Datasift

Getting real time social data is hard. API rate limitings, hundreds of APIs to work with, free APIs that could get cut off at any time. The bottom line is it's really difficult to get a reliable feed of real time social data.

That's where Datasift comes in. Datasift is the simplest way for marketers, researchers and develoeprs to get a real time data feed of any social feed they want to track.

Want access to the Twitter firehose? Check. How about Facebook streams? Check. Reddit, Youtube, and Flickr? Check, check and check.

The only tricky part about working with Datasift is that the main way to access the data is through an API. And that’s where the Datasift integration with Zapier comes in. With Datasift and Zapier you can easily:

• Track Twitter firehose data in Google Docs, Semantria or a Help Desk
• Archive mentions of your brand across the social world to Evernote
• Get alerts for product mentions in Google Talk, HipChat, etc.

Zapier lets you extend the functionality of Datasift far beyond the capabilities already built into Datasift and really simplify the process around tracking real time social data.

To use this integration

1. You’ll need an account on Datasift and Zapier as well as one on the web applications with which you want to integrate. Datasift has a monthly plans and a great pay-as-you-go option. Datasift is available on any Zapier paid plan which all come with 14 day free trials.
2. Create and start recording a Datasift stream in Datasift to use as your Zapier trigger..
3. Check out any of the integrations used with Zapier and Datasift.

The short youtube video walks you through archiving a Datasift stream to Evernote. Great job all around to the Datasift team for creating an easy tool for getting a firehose of social data.

If you want to build an integration for your web or mobile service check out the Zapier developer platform.