Mentions come to you
No more searching by hand. Each new post that matches your keyword reaches Slack, Telegram or email as soon as it's scored.
vs
Rumoro
The Social Mention alternative that searches for you
Social Mention’s real-time search went offline in 2022, and its domain has hosted unrelated sites since. Rumoro keeps an eye on your keywords across 16 sources and posts each new mention in Slack, from $5 a keyword a month.
$5.80 of free credit · no card · no subscription
Listening for “orbit”176 posts today
- 86
Orbit's new per-seat pricing doesn't work for a team with 30 freelancers. Looking at options.
- dropped
Found a pack of Orbit gum from 1998 😂
- 89
Orbit vs Asana after moving 40 client projects
- dropped
What keeps the ISS in orbit? Explained in three minutes
- 92
Our team outgrew spreadsheets. Is Orbit good for a 15-person agency?
orbit
- 92
Buying intent
Evaluating a tool like yours - 89
Comparison
Worth a reply from the team - 86
Churn risk
A customer considering leaving - 90
Bug report
A bug in your API
4 worth answering · 172 set aside
# salesSlack
P
Priya 10:14
Anyone hearing agencies ask about project tools this week?
r
Rumoro app 10:17
Buying intent on X
Our team outgrew spreadsheets. Is Orbit good for a 15-person agency?
Open threadMark done
The difference
Social Mention and Rumoro compared
With Social Mention you had to come back and run the search again. Rumoro keeps watching the words you care about and tells you when someone uses them.
QuestionSocial Mention
Rumoro
RumoroStatusSocial MentionSearch last archived in April 2022. Since late 2022 the domain has hosted unrelated sites.RumoroRunning, with free credit to start.
How you find mentionsSocial MentionYou typed a word and searched, or waited for its daily alert.RumoroRumoro watches your keywords and sends each new mention as soon as it's scored.
Where you listenSocial MentionBlogs, microblogs, bookmarks, images, videos and questions from sites such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Digg.Rumoro16 sources, including Reddit, X, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Hacker News, GitHub and app reviews.
AlertsSocial MentionDaily alerts.RumoroSlack, Telegram, email and signed webhooks, instantly or as digests.
API, MCP and SDKsSocial MentionAn API, gone with the site.RumoroREST API, an MCP server with 55 tools, SDKs and a CLI on every account.
Social Mention checked on 8 October 2026 against its last archived search page and its archived About page. Spot something out of date? Write to us and we’ll correct it.
Why switch
What changes when you move
You stop searching and start hearing about it, on the platforms people use today.
Today's platforms
Reddit, X, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Hacker News, GitHub and Bluesky, all under one keyword.
Scored against your company
Each mention gets a 0–100 relevance score, a sentiment and an intent, so a namesake never crowds out a customer.
An API your agent can use
Read mentions over REST, or let Claude, Cursor or Codex work with them through 55 MCP tools.
Price
What it costs
Your product and two competitors on Rumoro for one month: 3 keywords and 1,000 matched posts.
Social Mention: offline
- Search last archived in April 2022.
- Its alerts and API went with it.
- Nothing left to sign up for.
Rumoro: $23.00 a month
- 3 keywords × $5 = $15.00
- 1,000 matched posts × $0.008 = $8.00
- Every alert channel, the API and your agent included.
You pay per keyword and per post found, so the bill follows how much people talk about you. Work out your own month →
Switching
Moving from Social Mention
The words you used to type into Social Mention become keywords that Rumoro watches for you, with excluded words for the namesakes.
- 01
Describe what you sell
One sentence about your product. Every mention is scored against it.
- 02
Add the words you used to search
Your brand, your competitors and your topic become keywords, with excluded words for namesakes, on any of the 16 sources.
- 03
Pick where mentions go
Slack, Telegram, email or a webhook, the moment a post is scored or as a daily digest.
- 04
Start with recent posts
Each new keyword fetches recent matches from the past month on most sources.
Your Social Mention search
orbit
in: allalert: daily
The same word, watched by Rumoro
- Keyword
orbit- Excluded words
gumtelescope- Sources
- Reddit, X, LinkedIn and 13 more
- Alert
- # sales, buying intent and questions, relevance 60+
Set up your first keyword
Tracking many brands or clients? Write to us and we’ll help set them up.
Compare
More comparisons
- Google Alerts vs RumoroGoogle Alerts emails new search results; Rumoro reads Reddit, X and Hacker News directly, with Slack alerts and an API.
- Brand24 vs RumoroBrand24 starts at $249 a month for 3 keywords; Rumoro puts the API and MCP on every account.
- Octolens vs RumoroThe same developer sources, priced per keyword instead of a $199 plan, and your Octolens code keeps working.
- F5Bot vs RumoroFree keyword emails for Reddit and Hacker News, next to alerts scored against your company.
Social Mention and cost
Questions about Social Mention and Rumoro
Is Social Mention still working?
No. The Wayback Machine's last capture of its search page dates from April 2022. Since late 2022 the domain has redirected to or hosted unrelated sites, including ones selling social media followers, and on 8 October 2026 it didn't load.
What did Social Mention do?
According to its archived pages, it searched blogs, microblogs, bookmarks, images, videos and questions across more than 100 sites, such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Digg, and offered daily alerts and an API.
What is a good Social Mention alternative?
Rumoro, for the job most people used Social Mention for: knowing who talks about their brand. Instead of a search you run by hand, it watches your keywords on Reddit, X, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, Hacker News and 10 more sources, scores each mention against your company and sends the ones worth answering to Slack, Telegram, email or a webhook.
How much does Rumoro cost?
Each keyword costs $5 a month and each matched post $0.008, paid from a prepaid balance. Seats are free and there is no plan. Every workspace starts with $5.80 of credit.
Stop searching for your mentions
Your first keyword is on us. $5.80 of credit, no card.