Which sources are covered and what is their limitations?
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In this article, we have covered all the sources supported by Social Listening.
Social channels Source
Overview
Twitter
Source of Data: Official API - Firehose (All tweets and engagement stats are available in real-time)
Coverage: Both Public & Privately owned accounts data are available
Latency: Near real-time: 1-3 mins
Historical Data: Quarter 3 2014
Backfill Support: Yes
Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Retweet Count, Reply Count, Favorite Count, and Quoted Message Count are updated in real time
Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes
For more information, refer to X(Twitter) as a Listening Source .
Facebook
Source of Data: Public API
Coverage
Earned: Public Pages only
Owned: Facebook page, profile, groups
Latency: 5-30 Mins
Historical Data: From the date of addition/ indexing of the Facebook page to the Sprinklr coverage
Backfill Support: Yes
Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: 2-3 hours
Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Partial (Earned mentions), Full (Owned mentions)
For more information, refer to Facebook as a Listening Source .
Instagram
Source of Data: Meta/ Public API
Coverage: Earned: Hashtag based listening only, Owned support available
Latency: 5-60 mins
Historical Data: Topic backfills Not available (since partner level tokens are leveraged to fetch IG posts)
Backfill Support: No
Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Engagements stats will keep updating every 30-60 mins for first 7 days from the day of ingestion
Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Partial (Earned), Full (Owned)
For more information, refer to Instagram as a Listening Source .
Quora
Source of Data: Full Firehose. All public question, answer and comments are available
Coverage: Both Public & Private owned accounts data are available
Latency: Near Real Time
Historical Data: After 2009
Backfill Support: Yes
Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Refreshed every 2 hours only for 7 days.
Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes
For more information, refer to Quora as a Listening Source .
Web sources Source
Overview
Reddit
Source of Data: Official API - Firehose (All Reddit or Sub reddit posts and engagement stats are available in real-time)
Coverage: Direct firehose of both public & private owned accounts data.
Latency: Near real-time: 1-3 mins
Historical Data: Quarter 2 2017, Full historic access to owned account data dating back to account creation date.
Backfill Support: Yes
Engagement Stats Refresh Rate
Due to Firehose - API the post is updated in real time, 5-8 minutes max, once it is fetched.
Reddit scores are updated hourly once, for 7 days and Comment count for every 1 hour.
Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes
For more information, refer to Reddit as a Listening source .
News
Source of Data: Data Vendors
Coverage: Public mainstream news media primarily national and local market newspapers, news portals, wire services, news magazines, and various other news sources.
Latency: 12-24 hours
Historical Data: Q2 2015
Backfill Support: Yes, till the date of addition of News sites in Sprinklr
Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Not supported
Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes
For more information, refer to News as a Listening source .