Social Listening Blog
Social listening insights, workflows, customer stories, and news from Octolens team
12 Best Social Media Monitoring Tools in 2026 (Free & Paid)
We compared 12 social media monitoring tools on alert speed, platform coverage, noise filtering, and real pricing — plus the free options that actually work.
21 Best Social Listening Tools in 2026 (Compared)
We compared 21 social listening tools side by side — G2 ratings, real pricing, platform coverage, and what actual users say about each one.
Build a Wall of Love from Reddit, Twitter & LinkedIn Mentions
Your customers may be sharing awesome quotes and testimonials right now — on Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Hacker News. Most of it never makes it to your homepage. Here's how to pull the best mentions and turn them into a wall of love, using Octolens and MCP.
How to Track Social Signals Across the Internet (Not Just LinkedIn)
LinkedIn isn't the only place your buyers talk. Here's how GTM teams find buying intent across the full internet.
Auto-Create Linear Issues from Reddit, Twitter & LinkedIn Mentions
Bug reports and feature requests get posted in public every day, and most never reach your team. Here's how to automatically turn actionable product mentions into Linear issues using Octolens, Linear, and MCP.
How Metabase's Dev Advocate Saves 10 Hours a Week
With 47.3k+ GitHub stars and a community sprawling across Hacker News, Reddit, LinkedIn and X, Metabase needed a way to stop the daily five-tab bookmark juggle. Here's how their first DevRel hire built a real-time listening workflow with Octolens.
Get Social Listening Alerts in Discord with Val Town
Use Octolens webhooks and a free Val Town function to pipe brand mentions into Discord automatically.
12 Best Social Media APIs for Developers in 2026
Auth headaches, rate limits, pricing walls, and which APIs are actually worth integrating.
How Developer Marketing Teams Create Original Content With AI
Developers spot AI-generated fluff instantly. Here's how dev tool companies use real community data — from Reddit, Hacker News, and GitHub — to fuel AI content creation that actually resonates.
How Railway Uses the Octolens API to Reach 2.6M Developers
With 2.6 million developers and a growth engine built on word of mouth, Railway needed to understand the conversations driving their growth. Here's how they built a system for it with Octolens.