Telegram channels
Public channels, read post by post as they publish.
Взрывы и пожар на НПЗ, слышно по всему городу.
Explosions and a fire at the refinery, heard across the city.
The sources FirstTide reads
FirstTide ingests the public Telegram channels, RSS feeds and X accounts your team picks. More sources are added on a rolling basis, and WhatsApp is coming.
Source types
Telegram monitoring
RSS feeds
News sites and blogs, from national outlets to small local papers, checked every few minutes.
Produtores de Caconde relatam perdas com a seca e o fogo.
Caconde growers report losses from the drought and the fire.
X accounts
Public accounts, read on a live stream, with reposts and quote posts kept with the account that posted first.
Container ship aground near Ismailia. Tugs on scene, traffic slowed.
On the roadmap. More sources are added on a rolling basis.
Adding a source
Your team adds a source by its link or handle. In the app, the Sources page lists every source your organization follows, and FirstTide starts reading a source when your team adds it.
Plans set how many channels you follow, with Telegram channels, RSS feeds and X accounts counted together: 50 on Scout, 150 on Squad, and unlimited on Command and Enterprise.
| Scout | 50 |
|---|---|
| Squad | 150 |
| Command | Unlimited |
| Enterprise | Unlimited |
What happens to each post
FirstTide keeps every post in its original language, with a link back to where it was posted.
It groups posts about one event into a story with an English headline, and any post translates on request, into more than 130 languages.
Your team gives each Telegram channel and RSS feed a rating: Low, Moderate, High or Very high. The ratings count toward each story’s reliability level.
15 minutes on real channels.
We run FirstTide on a demo list of Telegram channels, RSS feeds and X accounts and open a story with you. If it fits your work, a 30-day pilot follows on the sources your team picks.