First to the claim, the whole story, and how it connects.
For open-source investigators, research teams and security teams watching a region.
FirstTide tells your team in Slack when a claim starts moving on your channels, files every post about it onto one story in posting order, and links it to the stories that share its people and places.
FirstTide matched your rule: Suez Canal, any level
Container ship aground in the Suez Canal near Ismailia
Low. 1 channel so far. It carries a video of the ship.
From the post everyone saw back to the first, and what it connects to
Container ship aground in the Suez Canal near Ismailia. Posts from your channels, newest first, UTC. The smaller discs are places the story shares with other stories this week.
BREAKING: Suez Canal blocked again.
The post most people saw. It claims a blocked canal and names no source.
Container ship aground near Ismailia. Tugs on scene, traffic slowed.
Earlier: tugs on scene and traffic slowed. Nothing here says the canal is blocked.
هيئة القناة: القاطرات تعمل على تعويم السفينة.
Canal authority: tugs are working to refloat the ship.
Earlier: the canal authority, named, says tugs are working to refloat the ship.
فيديو: سفينة حاويات جانحة في قناة السويس قرب الإسماعيلية.
Video: a container ship aground in the Suez Canal near Ismailia.
The first post among your channels, 50 minutes before the aggregator, with a video of the ship.
The rule behind the alert
Your team writes it once, as a sentence: a place, a word, a level, a person or an event type.
Why it fits an investigation
Your list, around the clock
FirstTide reads your list around the clock and files every post onto stories in posting order, each linked to its original. The list imports and exports as a CSV file.
First among your channels
Each post carries the timestamp its platform gave it, in UTC. Read back from the newest, and the earliest post among your channels is at the bottom.
One click to the original
Every post links to its original, so your team checks the video or photo where it was first posted.
A level that shows its reason
Each level comes with its reason in one line, built from channel ratings, how many separate channels carry the story and what the posts say about their source. How the check works
How the stories connect
Each story links to the others that name the same people and places. Follow a person, and see every story they appear in.
Sized for a small team
Plans go by seats and channels, not posts read. A team of 3 with a list of 150 channels fits Squad. Compare the plans
Trace one back with us.
15 minutes on a demo list of public channels, walking one story back to its first post. If it fits, a 30-day pilot follows on your own channel list.