Social listening use cases, built around a useful next step.
Choose the question your team needs to answer. Find public customer feedback, review the source and decide what deserves support, investigation or a better explanation.
From a public mention to a useful next step.
A support question, a comparison and a feature request need different responses. These eight workflows start with the work, then show how a focused keyword and a shared review queue can help. Each includes a fictional example, practical actions and the boundaries to check before you begin.
Choose a workflow before you choose more keywords.
Resolve a specific problem
For public service questions and bug reports, start with customer support or product feedback. Give an item an owner, check what happened and record a next step. Move private account details into your established support channel.
Understand a conversation
Use competitor monitoring and reputation review to ask better questions. A few public posts can reveal a point of confusion; they cannot establish how an entire market feels.
Build a manageable habit
Our small-business workflow starts with one useful question and a review routine. Track a distinctive phrase, remove irrelevant matches and discuss one improvement in your weekly team check-in.
The source changes what you can do with the result.
X and YouTube collection is live in activated beta workspaces with daily scans, subject to access and quotas. Eligible X posts can support AI triage, analytics and alerts. YouTube is limited to private inbox and manual review: no AI, aggregate analytics, external alerts, exports or agent access.
Reddit collection stays disabled pending commercial approval. LinkedIn and Meta customer workflows also require provider approval and their authorised account connections. UmmahSignal does not offer private-message collection, unrestricted LinkedIn keyword search or automated replies.