Sprout Social vs. Twitter Counter (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Sprout Social
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Sprout Social provides social media management, marketing, customer care, data and intelligence, and employee advocacy solutions for brands and agencies, including Ticketmaster, Chipotle, Grubhub, Subaru, and Zendesk. Sprout’s platform is used to simplify social publishing, engagement, reviews, analytics and listening for customers. Sprout also provides customer success and technical support, to deliver consistent value to all users. Any organization, regardless of size or industry, receives…
$249
per month per user
Twitter Counter (discontinued)
Score 6.9 out of 10
N/A
Twitter Counter provided insights from Twitter for users of any size, from individuals to agencies and large corporations. Additional features included optimized tweet timing, audience insights and engagement, and competitor monitoring. The service is discontinued.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Standard
$199 annual / $249 monthly
per user/per month
Professional
$299 annual / $399 monthly
per user/per month
Advanced
$399 annual / $499 monthly
per user/per month
Free Trial
Free
for 30 days
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
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Chose Twitter Counter (discontinued)
Twitter counter stacks against other social media analytic products on its features and graphical report presentation. It helps you control the user behavior and helps on the growth of business. It features
  • Campaign Management
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
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Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Sprout Social
7.4
53 Ratings
3% below category average
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Ratings
Boolean keyword searches6.939 Ratings00 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam7.043 Ratings00 Ratings
Sentiment analysis7.124 Ratings00 Ratings
Broad channel coverage8.434 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Sprout Social
4.9
57 Ratings
48% below category average
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Ratings
Content planning and scheduling7.157 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience targeting3.048 Ratings00 Ratings
Content optimization3.549 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow management6.052 Ratings00 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Sprout Social
6.0
55 Ratings
30% below category average
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Ratings
Automated routing and prioritization2.725 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction histories7.851 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk actions7.446 Ratings00 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Sprout Social
4.7
39 Ratings
48% below category average
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Ratings
Lead generation2.431 Ratings00 Ratings
Content marketing2.935 Ratings00 Ratings
Paid media management6.23 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions7.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
Sprout Social
7.5
59 Ratings
13% below category average
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Ratings
Twitter7.757 Ratings00 Ratings
Facebook6.359 Ratings00 Ratings
LinkedIn8.352 Ratings00 Ratings
Google+7.721 Ratings00 Ratings
Instagram7.249 Ratings00 Ratings
Pinterest7.214 Ratings00 Ratings
YouTube8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
Sprout Social
5.9
58 Ratings
28% below category average
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Ratings
Campaign success analytics4.154 Ratings00 Ratings
Real-time tracking6.655 Ratings00 Ratings
Competitor analysis6.947 Ratings00 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
Sprout Social
7.6
58 Ratings
7% below category average
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Ratings
Role-based user permissions & privileges7.655 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile access7.651 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
Publer
Publer
Score 9.8 out of 10
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Publer
Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Social Suite by Reputation.com
Social Suite by Reputation.com
Score 9.3 out of 10
Social Suite by Reputation.com
Social Suite by Reputation.com
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Social Suite by Reputation.com
Social Suite by Reputation.com
Score 9.3 out of 10
1-Social
1-Social
Score 8.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
7.6
(115 ratings)
8.2
(6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(62 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.1
(42 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
7.7
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
5.2
(37 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
7.3
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(11 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Sprout Social
Sprout [Social] is great for small businesses, small agencies and those who need a platform but don't want to spend a fortune. If you need multiple user log-in's, the cost will add up. This is great to share a log-in for different people to use or add one or two users
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Twitter Counter is the best tool for surveying your brand's and campaigns' performance. It gives a good statistical analysis. This analysis of tweets will help you to grow your account, determine when to tweet and what to tweet, and help you with overall growth. Though it is little difficult to understand (you have to navigate through all the features to learn the tool), once you learn it, it is easy to use. It will help you understand the market requirement.
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Pros
Sprout Social
  • The Landscape system that Sprout Social offers allows me to modify all the images that I want to publish on my social networks. This service allows me to modify the size of the image, add filters, modify the colors and much more, it is a very important tool to be able to have a better presentation of the images that we use in our publications on social networks.
  • It offers me a perfect statistical system where I can consult all kinds of movements that have occurred in all my social networks, I can see statistics individually or generally. The statistics allow me to see group reports, participation, information on audience movement on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn and also allow me to view the activity that has occurred in my account.
  • Sprout Social allows me to view a record in real time that shows me all the movements that my social networks are having by my employees. As Director of the Marketing Sector, this is a very important role, as I can know what actions my employees are taking to improve marketing with social networks.
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  • Something very comfortable is that you do not have to open another account, just with the username on Twitter access to the tool and you can see the evolution of the profile every day, I can see if the number of users increased or not.
  • In addition, I can observe data of my followers, the data of who I follow, and something very important: I can see my tweets and compare data.
  • its interface allows to observe weekly, monthly and if desired data and for a better analysis a quarterly of all this data.
  • In terms of analysis, we use it to achieve media monitoring work in a political campaign. This allowed us to evaluate and verify the strategy that was used was the correct one.
  • It is a simple, easy to use tool.
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Cons
Sprout Social
  • I'd love to see more robust tag reporting capabilities, but they mentioned that this is something in the pipeline for improvement.
  • I wish it was easier to batch content and shift it to approval or draft mode. Sometimes clients can change their mind and moving through each post individually can be a bit time consuming. This is a very minor thing.
  • I'd love to see more customization options come to its reporting feature so we can insert graphics. Currently it supports the insertion of text only.
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  • Inaccurate Prediction: Twitter predictions are usually ineffective. For instance, Twitter Counter has always wrongly predicted the number of Twitter followers we will gain from a Twitter campaign or at a certain date.
  • Poor customer support; Takes an average of two weeks to get a response from Twitter support. There is also no Live help desk team to talk to when you need an immediate assistance.
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Likelihood to Renew
Sprout Social
While I am currently no longer working with the company in which I was employed and utilized Sprout Social, I do know that the company is still utilizing Sprout Social on a daily basis and I do not foresee a time when the subscription would be cancelled.
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it is not complicated to use, ideal to have an image of the account, in a short time. You can predict the future if you consider that you have a good strategy.
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Usability
Sprout Social
Sprout Social is extremely user-friendly. The publishing feature is easy to use, and provides previews of what your content will look like once posted. I also love the calendar view where you can view all posts you have scheduled for the month. The collaborative nature of the platform makes working directly in Sprout Social with clients a breeze, and we are seeing our content get approved much faster.
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in general it is a tool not very complicated, it is more difficult for those who do not master the English language, but even without mastering the language in its free phase you can immediately interpret the data it offers.
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Reliability and Availability
Sprout Social
Uptime was OK, but given the fact that we are in Europe, there were some specific problems: They tended to take the system down for maintenance during the night in the US, which was during our workday. This was definitely problematic and hard to explain to our clients.
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Performance
Sprout Social
It is quick to post, however you have to refresh the page every time you add a new scheduled item.
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Support Rating
Sprout Social
Sprout Social's customer support is extremely prompt and always helpful. Not only do they provide quick and useful service, but the representatives follow up multiple times to ensure that the issue is fully address and/or completely resolved. The overall experience is exemplary; very few other companies provide comparable service.
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I have not used it so far I have not used it so far
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Online Training
Sprout Social
Their training is good, but the promotion of it is even better. I don't need or have the time for training, but I was always happy to know it was there. They did a great job sending updates out and making me aware when there was a new feature that I may want training for. As for the training I never used it, so I can't comment on that
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Implementation Rating
Sprout Social
Make sure you do it all the way. Do not break it into phases. Pour yourself a coffee, start it in the morning and you'll be done before you finish that coffee.
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it is important to have some knowledge about market statistics
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Alternatives Considered
Sprout Social
I used Buffer previous to Sprout Social for two years. It was a good solution as we were getting a handle on scheduling content. It was the first real tool we had for this. But we outgrew it and they began removing features that were critical to our workflow, such as the RSS Feed. While their 50% off policy for non-profits was very helpful, once we started adding up the cost to use features like Replies and Analytics, we discovered that our needs were simply too robust for Buffer to handle. Sprout Social was the solution suggested by all our peers and we've been very happy with it ever since.
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I've used AgoraPulse and Hootsuite for analytics in the past. For a small organization that needs to keep a relatively tight budget control while still being able to delve into its analytics over the past year, Twitter Counter has the edge over AgoraPulse and Hootsuite. Both require much higher monthly payments for analytics that cover that length of time. Twitter Counter doesn't try to be an all-in-one solution, and in that regard, it stands out for reporting, especially for smaller organizations that do not need the full functionality of more expensive AgoraPulse or Hootsuite packages.
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Return on Investment
Sprout Social
  • Sprout has given insights to lead our creative refreshes every quarter. As we have a healthy budget on paid social, it is crucial to understand the type of creative that works best.
  • Sprout has the ability to send notifications based on certain types of messages received. This is crucial for social media teams who don't have 24/7 coverage but need to be notified of urgent matters.
  • Sprout has saved me hours of time as I no longer pull analytics natively from each social platform. The generated reports give me a look at all of the platforms and can be customized.
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  • Can add and easily switch between 10 different accounts and will have full access to all features.
  • Data analytics helped in growing your account and attracts followers.
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ScreenShots

Sprout Social Screenshots

Screenshot of Sprout’s social media publishing tools, used to schedule and post messages to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn simultaneously from a single Compose window.