Recon.io is now free for startups

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).

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.

The Hipmunk demo miscategorizes most of the "neutral" tweets: 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.

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

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.

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.

How is this better than mention?