3. Keyhole

Keyhole, a tool that tracks hashtags across Facebook and Twitter, is an amazing tool. It works just like Google Alerts but for social media. You can create an alert for a topic and monitor it in real-time.

It can be used to defend your brand if necessary. If you have the resources, one person will monitor all mentions of your brand using this app in real-time and respond immediately to any criticisms or issues.

4. Social Mention

It's a clever tool that analyzes the content of a large number of websites. It doesn't just analyze major networks such as Twitter and Facebook but also examines more than 100 websites, including Digg, YouTube, and FriendFeed.

This tool can be used to discover trending topics on any site that hosts user-generated resources.

Social Mention gives you the ability to search for any query and also provides a list of influencers. People who are active on the relevant social networks have a large following and engagements. This list can help you find potential collaborators or endorsers.

5. Buzzfeed

Buzzfeed was founded specifically for sharing content on popular topics. Its workers are experts at finding the latest trends so you can be sure that they are. It displays popular trends on the right-hand side of its homepage so that you can quickly find your trends.

Buzzfeed's hot trends are mainly in the form of listicles. You can learn a lot from this site, not only keyword ideas and topics, but also the best way to frame the titles. It works because people click on the links. It's also easy to learn.