What's new ?

Q1 2025

💡 New Source : Bluesky

  • 100% of public posts, in real time

  • Historical data available since 2021

  • Monitoring by keywords or by list of channels

  • All Visibrain features available (Explore, Filters, Alerts, Reports, Smartboards, Exports, Mapping)

🔧 Other Updates

  • The creation and modification dates of Topics, Reports, and Alerts are now available

  • Alerts and Reports: A red alert appears if there are issues sending Reports or Alerts. The “view recent activity” option helps identify the problem

  • Topics: A red alert appears on the Topic page to indicate an invalid account in a panel

  • Topics: Manual addition of posts is now possible

  • Smartboards: You can lock the time period when sharing Smartboards using the “hide datepicker” option

Q4 2024

New Filter: proximity:

  • A new filtering operator based on word proximity is now available.

  • Works across all sources.

  • Maximum distance between words: 5 words.

  • Example usage:

    • proximity:"apple samsung"~4 will capture posts where "apple" and "samsung" appear within 4 words of each other, in any order.

    • Example match: "Samsung competes with Apple in wireless earbuds."

🔧 Other Updates

  • Facebook: Now supports the "Care" reaction.

  • Topics: Error messages are now highlighted when a monitored account does not exist.

  • Filters: New option to copy the entire filter to the clipboard from the filter bar.

  • Smartboards: Added a logarithmic scale option for timelines.

Q3 2024

💡 New Source : Telegram

  • Coverage : 5M public channels

  • Keyword or Channel monitoring

  • Visibrain features (Explore, Filters, Alerts, Reports, Smartboards, Exports, Cartographics analysis)

🤝 Smartboard Sharing

  • Share your Smartboard with your team through a simple link

  • Highly confidential

    • Create multiple links for a Smartboard

    • Define the expiration date

    • Deactivate when needed

🔍 User Management Interface

  • Manage users' rights directly on your account

  • Add and delete users

  • 5 levels of user rights : ADMIN, TOPICS EDITOR, STANDARD, READER or SMARTBOARD READER

🔧 Other Updates

  • LinkedIn : Monitor through exact expressions to be more precise

Q2 2024

🏃 X (Twitter): Migration to API v2

X has released a new version of its Enterprise API, which provides the highest level of data access and is used by Visibrain. This update introduces several new capabilities:

  • Sort posts by view count

  • Increased QuickTrends query size: Now supports 4096 characters (previously 2048).

  • New filters for account creation date:

    • user_account_age:

    • user_creation_date:

    • user_creation_day:

  • Improved handling of sensitive content with the new sensitive: filter.

  • Better management of reply tweets.

  • Minor changes in available operators for creating X topics:

    • profile_country:, profile_region:, and profile_locality: have been removed.

🫂 Instagram: Co-Author Management

  • Co-authors of an Instagram post are now displayed.

  • New filters available:

    • coauthor:

    • has_coauthors:true/false

🔧 Other Updates

  • Autocomplete for filter operators in filtering boxes.

  • Automatic email alerts if there's a risk of exceeding the X post volume quota.

  • Passwordless authentication via a magic link sent by email.

  • Improved time zone management.

  • TikTok: New type: filter to sort by post type (photo or video).

Q1 2024

💡 New Source: Threads

  • Monitoring of all public posts

  • Keyword-based tracking or account list monitoring

  • Full access to Visibrain features (Explore, filters, Alerts, Reports, Smartboards, exports, and mapping)

⬆️ On-Demand Engagement Metrics Update

You can now refresh engagement metrics for one or multiple posts with just a few clicks!

  • To update a post’s metrics: Dropdown menu > Refresh post metrics

  • To update metrics for all posts on a page: Dropdown menu > Refresh metrics

  • Available for all sources except X/Twitter (where metrics update in real-time).

📈 QuickTrends Now Covers Up to 1 Year

  • Generate QuickTrends timelines for up to 1 year (previously limited to 30 days).

  • The maximum window is 1 year, but data is available since 2006 (e.g., you can create a timeline from January 2015 to December 2015).

🔧 Other Updates:

  • Alerts: SMS alerts now come from "Visibrain" instead of a random phone number.

  • Smartboards: New "Screenshot" feature for each widget.

  • QuickTrends: Added a percentage indicator.

  • Quotas: Now includes quarterly subscriptions.

  • X/Twitter: New shortcut "Exclude tweet + replies + quotes" in the tweet dropdown menu.

Q4 2023

💡 New Source : LinkedIn

  • All public posts from pages and professionals

  • Full access to Visibrain features (Explore, filters, Alerts, Reports, Smartboards, exports, and mapping)

  • LinkedIn reactions now taken into account (sorting options, filters, and pie chart visualization)

  • LinkedIn-specific filters, including is_company

📅 "Smart" Date Selector

  • You can now enter start or end dates in natural language, e.g., "This morning" or "February 1st at 11 AM", and the platform will automatically translate them into exact dates.

  • Ability to use "now" (or "maintenant") as an end date.

  • New date presets: Current month, Last month, Current year...

  • History of recently selected time periods

✉️ RSS Feeds in Visibrain

  • It is now possible to create an RSS feed from an alert.

  • Contact your account manager for more details on this feature.

🔧 Other Updates:

  • Integration of Olvid (secure messaging) for sending Alerts and Reports

  • Facebook: Added "Sort by Followers" option for posts

Q3 2023

🔧 X (Twitter) Updates

  • Sorting by Likes: You can now sort tweets (X posts) by the number of Likes.

  • New Badge Display:

    • Gold Badge: Verified organization.

    • Gray Badge: Governmental or official government organization.

    • These badges are now visible on posts and user profiles.

  • New Filter – verified_type:: Filter accounts based on their badge type.

🔧 Other Updates

  • Smartboards: New option to format timelines as bar charts.

  • QuickTrends: Improved error messages for better clarity.

  • Usage & Quotas:

    • Improved interface for usage tracking.

    • Ability to download consumption data in CSV format.

  • Facebook:

    • New filter !page_name_contains (same as page_name_contains: but case-sensitive).

Q2 2023

✨ New Features

  • New Alert and Reports delivery mode via Microsoft Teams

  • New filter profile_contains: enables you to research a keyword or list of letters in an account's details : display name, account name, biography, (combines bio_contains, username_contains: and displayname_contains: filtering options ...)

  • Twitter: number of replies, quoted tweets and views available in overall tweet KPIs

🔧 Upgrades

  • Globals Filters available on multiple monitoring Modules

  • Clone your Alerts and Reports

  • An error message will appear in case of mistakes in Topic creation

  • Twitter: permalink available in CSV exports

  • Two users can edit a Smartboard simultaneously

  • Different platform upgrades

Q1 2023

✨ New Features

  • New filter full_contains: enables you to research a keyword or a character sequence in all the monitored content: in a post, article, quoted tweet ... (combines thecontains, link_title_contains, link_description_contains, quoted_contains ... filters)

  • Key expressions GEXF export option (Gephi)

  • Filtering option on your press review: "New Articles Only"

  • Instagram: New section "Posts Types" available in the analytics tab and new filter post_type: enables you to filter through different types of content (Reels, TGTV, Feed)

  • Tiktok: new filter sound_contains: enables you research a character sequence in sound titles and authors (combines sound_title_contains: & sound_author_contains: filters)

  • Youtube: new filter duration: filter down your content by videos length

🔧 Upgrades

  • Explore: new timeline KPI: potential impressions, number of reactions, number of likes ....

  • Smartboard: Unique Tweets and Users KPI options

  • Smartboard: display of analysis period in the PDF export

  • Twitter: rank tweets in your tweet review by the Twitter account's audience

  • TikTok: Account details added in your CSV exports, new filters !username_contains: & !displayname_contains: to search for case & accent sensitive words

  • Different platform upgrades

New major version of the platform

News

  • Smartboard, customizable dashboards enabling you to analyse and present different data sets

  • Reports, (replaces Digest alerts) to create automatic multi-topic reports

  • Added TikTok as new data source

  • Added YouTube as new data source

  • 100% responsive interface for mobile and tablet compatibility

  • Turbo mode for large topics (>50,000 posts per day)

🔧 Improvements

  • PDF and HTML export of reports

  • "Do Not Disturb" mode in alerts

  • QuickTrends: save requests and display in histogram

  • and more than 100 diverses ameliorations

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