# What's new ?
## Q3 2025
### 💡 **New source: News**
* Monitoring of online media (online press, blogs, and news sites)
* More than **200 million websites** covered worldwide
* **In real time**
### 📊 **Improvements to Smartboards**
* Hide a curve on a timeline
* Copy operations from one section to another within the same *Smartboard*
### 🔧 **Other new features**
* New sorting option by **engagement rate for users**
* Extended display for long filters
* New export format: **JSON**
* **Bluesky:** Easily view posts quoting another post with the **“Get Quotes”** option
* **CSV export** of the list of all your topics (titles and settings)
## 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
### :bulb: 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
### :bulb: New Source : Telegram
* Coverage : 5M public channels
* Keyword or Channel monitoring
* Visibrain features *(Explore, Filters, Alerts, Reports, Smartboards, Exports, Cartographics analysis)*
### :handshake: 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
### :mag: 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
### :person\_running: **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.
### :people\_hugging: **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
### :bulb: **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)
### :arrow\_up: **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).
### :chart\_with\_upwards\_trend: **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
### :bulb: 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**
### :date: "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
### :envelope: 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 the*contains, 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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