✨Tracked platforms

Overview of the platforms and other data sources Octolens monitors for your keywords

When you first sign up to Octolens and choose keywords during onboarding, we go as far back as 7 days and find up to 100 posts per platform.

For any new keywords you add after onboarding, we also go as far back as 7 days and find up to 10 posts per platform.

Data Source	What we monitor	Search intervals
X/Twitter	Keyword mentioned in tweet or comment	Depends on plan (Pro: hourly, Scale: <5 minutes) No retweets. English tweets only.
Reddit	Keyword mentioned in post title, post body, and comments	Real time
Bluesky	Keyword mentioned in post or comment	Real time
Podcasts	Brand mentioned in transcript	Real time
Hacker News	Keyword mentioned in post and comments	Depends on plan (Pro: hourly, Scale: <5 minutes)
GitHub	Keyword mentioned in GitHub issues	Depends on plan (Pro: hourly, Scale: <5 minutes)
DEV.to	Keyword mentioned in heading and description	Depends on plan (Pro: hourly, Scale: <5 minutes)
YouTube	Keyword mentioned in video title or description	Depends on plan (Pro: hourly, Scale: <5 minutes)
Newsletters	Keywords mentioned in subject and body of newsletter	Real-time
Stack Overflow	Keyword mentioned in post title and body	Runs once per day
TikTok	Keyword mentioned in video description	Depends on plan (Pro: hourly, Scale: <5 minutes)
LinkedIn	Keyword mentioned in public posts + Your own brand-tagged mentions (via OAuth, set up in the platform page)	Depends on plan (Pro: hourly, Scale: <5 minutes)
News (Scale only)	Keyword mentioned in news publications (+150,000 sources)	Runs every 6 hours

We are working on adding more data sources. Write us in our in-app chat or at [e-mail] if you have requests.