12 social media tools to find people online!
March 26th, 2008 by Andy Merchant
In our social media consultancy, we’re finding that target audiences for our clients are becoming more and more specific…sometimes down to a list of individuals. With the rise of social networks, it’s becoming possible to reach a group of individuals through PR, as opposed to the broad brush approach that is often applied to more traditional media.
As a result, we’ve spent some time refining the tools that we use to research particular individuals.
If you need to find the CEO of a particular company as a part of your research, or just want to find old friends and colleagues…check out the Liberate Media online people search tools!
XING -Find deals, employees, colleagues and jobs
Rapleaf - Lookup your information, Search for information about others, Manage your online privacy
PeopleFinders.com - The Web’s Largest People Search by Background Check, Public Records Search, and E-Mail Address
PeekYou - The Smartest People Search Online
Explode! - Search for interesting people
123people.com | Find everyone you (want to) know!
Pipl - The most comprehensive people search on the web
yoName - People search across social networks, blogs and more.
Wink People Search - Over 205,038,914 people on social networks and across the Web.
Spokeo - find your friends blogs and photos that you never knew they had
Upscoop - Import your email address book and discover which of your friends are on social networks…
The Internet Address Book - find, manage internet addresses all around the world
As always, any thoughts on the list or any tools we have missed please let us know.
All the above will go into our ongoing social media and web 2.0 research/resource page. Please check it out - it’s a little heavy now, but well worth the wait!
Tags: liberate media, online search tools, search tools, social media research, social media resource
March 26th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
great post. I have had a lot of luck finding people by searching public records. Just another idea for finding people.
April 1st, 2008 at 6:38 pm
I just spent about ab hour going through all of these sites. Yoname.com is the easiest and best for finding people on social networks. Peoplefinders just gives teaser info and makes you pay for the rest. I would have added linkedin to your list.
December 6th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
This is a great list. I wish I could have found this sooner. I agree with the previous comment on Yoname being one of the easiest to work with.
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:06 pm
A glaring ommission is http://www.yasni.com - it’s the world’s best without doubt! I mean, I saw some stats the other day that said it was faster growing in Germany than Facebook and now its been launched worldwide.
July 16th, 2010 at 1:34 am
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