✨What's new ?
Q2 2025
🔓 Two-Factor Authentication
- Visibrain allows you to enhance the security of your account with two-factor authentication (2FA/MFA). 
- You can enable this feature from your user account settings. 
- If you need assistance setting up 2FA, please contact your account manager. 
🌍 Countries and Cities data available on LinkedIn
- Visibrain now provides an indicator for the country and city of accounts, for both users and companies who have shared this information. 
- An aggregated view of countries and cities is available in Analytics. 
- The filters country: and city: are now available on LinkedIn. 
📊 Smartboard enhancements 
- You can now prioritize Smartboards by marking them as favorites. 
- From a Shared Link, it's possible to export the Smartboard as a PDF. 
- Timelines can now be displayed with weekly precision. 
- In Bar Charts, you can customize the display order of legends. 
- New features have been added across the different Smartboard sections to enhance analytical capabilities. 
- It's now possible to display ratios between two KPIs in the "counts" sections. 
🔧  Other Updates
- Improved display of the Quotas page 
- The list of Topics and Users is now available for export 
- Manage the Filter Library directly from the Settings page 
- Detection and sorting of parody accounts on X 
- Ranking by interactions is now available on LinkedIn 
- The filters has_image and has_media are now available on LinkedIn 
- The filters replied_contains, replied_user, and replied_bio_contains are now available on Bluesky 
- Verified badges are now supported on Bluesky and can be used to sort users 
- Errors within Topics are now highlighted for better clarity 
- Improved tweet presentation in Alerts and Reports 
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:
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"~4will 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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