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Tech Trends columnist John Brandon tests Sprout Social, a Web-based tool that lets you manage and analyze multiple social media accounts. Here are the results.
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Why It's Trending: An $800 million injection in Twitter from Digital Sky Technologies gives the micro-blogging service an $8.4 billion valuation. In 2010, Twitter made $45 million in revenue, and expects to triple that in 2011.
Tech Trends columnist John Brandon tests Sprout Social, a Web-based tool that lets you manage and analyze multiple social media accounts. Here are the results.
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