Telegram monitoring for news desks and OSINT teams
Add the public Telegram channels you follow. FirstTide reads every post in its original language, groups posts about one event into a story with an English headline, and links each post back to its channel.
Why a channel list is hard to follow by hand
A busy channel posts through the night. 10 channels on one beat post the same event in different words and different scripts, and forwards repeat it. Reading them in tabs, someone has to notice that 6 posts are one story, work out which channel had it first, and translate the ones they cannot read.
FirstTide does that reading for the whole list, around the clock, and puts the result on one story you can check.
Minister to resign over a leaked recording, spokesperson says
Jerusalem
First posted by a political channel at 21:02. 3 more of your channels posted it in the next 49 minutes.
השר מתפטר הערב. ההקלטה בדרך.
The minister resigns tonight. The recording is on its way.
تقارير عن استقالة الوزير بعد تسريب تسجيل.
Reports of the minister's resignation after a leaked recording.
דובר המשרד: השר יודיע על התפטרותו ב-22:00.
Ministry spokesperson: the minister will announce his resignation at 22:00.
Minister to resign tonight over a leaked recording, his office says.
Medium
A regional channel names the ministry spokesperson, and a national site cites his office.
Add a channel by its link
Paste the channel's link. FirstTide finds the channel and its language, your team gives it a rating, and its posts start joining stories.
What FirstTide does with your channels
- Groups posts by event.Posts about one event join one story, even when the channels post in Hebrew and Arabic. Each story gets an English headline written by a machine.
- Keeps the order and the originals.The story lists its posts in the order they were posted. Each post shows its channel and time and links to the original, so you can see who posted first and open the media yourself.
- Translates on request.Translate any post into one of more than 130 languages, and keep the original beside the translation.
- A reliability check with a reason.Every story gets a check of how well its claim is supported, with a one-line reason. See how the check works.
- Alerts.Alerts arrive in the app. On Squad and larger plans, they also arrive by email and browser push.
- Dashboards.Build a dashboard from 9 widget types, including a topic feed, a message feed, a topic map and a keyword monitor.
FirstTide reads RSS feeds and X accounts the same way, and their posts join the same stories.
See your beat as stories.
We run FirstTide on a demo list of public Telegram channels and open a story with you. If it fits your work, a 30-day pilot follows on the channels your team picks.