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Recon.io is now free for startups

15 points by illdave 14y ago

pankajguna000 14y ago
Just tried your service, It good's to use.
skram 14y ago
This is good news - thanks guys. I tried www.recon.io out for my project a few months ago and it was great but I think my trial expired or something. Going to take a look at it again and take advantage of the startup plan. Cheers, @Skram of @MappyHealth
- illdave 14y ago
  Nice one! Give me a shout if you run into any issues or need a hand with getting set up: dave@recon.io
dave5104 14y ago
Is this actually just only for startups, or is anyone eligible who might get under 500 mentions a month? I work for a mid-sized company that isn't really startuppy anymore, but I think the marketing folks would love to try this out. I don't think we get >500 mentions a month, but if we did, I could definitely see them making the investment.
- joshdotsmith 14y ago
  It's just how they named the plan: "The Startup plan is perfect for businesses, side projects or individuals who get less than 500 brand mentions on Twitter each month."
- illdave 14y ago
  Hi Dave, yep - absolutely fine to use the free account. Let me know if you guys run into any issues or have any feedback.
Kudos 14y ago
Just tried this for my project, the alerting looks like it will be most valuable to me. Hopefully I can stop monitoring my saved Twitter search and just use this.
adrr 14y ago
Not really free for startups. Free for anyone under 500 mentions a month. I normally think of startups as companies who are less than 2 years old and under 10 employees.
zzzmarcus 14y ago
The Hipmunk demo miscategorizes most of the "neutral" tweets: http://recon.io/demo/neutral http://recon.io/demo/neutral About 50% of those are easily positive with quite a few more that could fall into the positive category without much debate.
- illdave 14y ago
  You're right, we're improving the sentiment filter constantly but it's not quite perfect yet. I have some updates to push live that should improve that detection a bit further.
juriga 14y ago
Great news! I've been using Recon.io for a couple of months now and found the alerting functionality really useful. It's basically Google Alerts for Twitter: just enter your product/company name and have one less feed to worry about. Their database of journalists is also quite valuable already. I've entered "analytics" as the industry keyword and I get a couple of alerts every week for similar product launches covered by well known journalists. In the future I'd love to see more history and aggregates on the dashboard (now only shows tweets from the last 7 days).
- illdave 14y ago
  Awesome, glad you're finding it useful and thanks for the kind words. I'm also planning on storing and showing more tweet history in an upcoming update, so hopefully that'll be useful too.
KaoruAoiShiho 14y ago
How is this better than mention?
- illdave 14y ago
  Try it out - it analyses each tweet to work out what it's about, so instead of being alerted to everything you can (for example) only get alerts for support issues, or user questions, or if an investor tweets about you - amongst other things.

15 points by illdave 14y ago

Just tried your service, It good's to use.

skram 14y ago

This is good news - thanks guys. I tried www.recon.io out for my project a few months ago and it was great but I think my trial expired or something. Going to take a look at it again and take advantage of the startup plan. Cheers, @Skram of @MappyHealth

illdave 14y ago
Nice one! Give me a shout if you run into any issues or need a hand with getting set up: dave@recon.io

dave5104 14y ago

Is this actually just only for startups, or is anyone eligible who might get under 500 mentions a month? I work for a mid-sized company that isn't really startuppy anymore, but I think the marketing folks would love to try this out. I don't think we get >500 mentions a month, but if we did, I could definitely see them making the investment.

joshdotsmith 14y ago
It's just how they named the plan: "The Startup plan is perfect for businesses, side projects or individuals who get less than 500 brand mentions on Twitter each month."
illdave 14y ago
Hi Dave, yep - absolutely fine to use the free account. Let me know if you guys run into any issues or have any feedback.

Kudos 14y ago

Just tried this for my project, the alerting looks like it will be most valuable to me. Hopefully I can stop monitoring my saved Twitter search and just use this.

adrr 14y ago

Not really free for startups. Free for anyone under 500 mentions a month. I normally think of startups as companies who are less than 2 years old and under 10 employees.

zzzmarcus 14y ago

The Hipmunk demo miscategorizes most of the "neutral" tweets: http://recon.io/demo/neutral http://recon.io/demo/neutral About 50% of those are easily positive with quite a few more that could fall into the positive category without much debate.

illdave 14y ago
You're right, we're improving the sentiment filter constantly but it's not quite perfect yet. I have some updates to push live that should improve that detection a bit further.

juriga 14y ago

Great news! I've been using Recon.io for a couple of months now and found the alerting functionality really useful. It's basically Google Alerts for Twitter: just enter your product/company name and have one less feed to worry about. Their database of journalists is also quite valuable already. I've entered "analytics" as the industry keyword and I get a couple of alerts every week for similar product launches covered by well known journalists. In the future I'd love to see more history and aggregates on the dashboard (now only shows tweets from the last 7 days).

illdave 14y ago
Awesome, glad you're finding it useful and thanks for the kind words. I'm also planning on storing and showing more tweet history in an upcoming update, so hopefully that'll be useful too.

KaoruAoiShiho 14y ago

How is this better than mention?

illdave 14y ago
Try it out - it analyses each tweet to work out what it's about, so instead of being alerted to everything you can (for example) only get alerts for support issues, or user questions, or if an investor tweets about you - amongst other things.