Get familiar with Listening sources
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In this article, we have covered all the sources supported by Social Listening.
Social channels 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 Twitter as a Listening Source .
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 .
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 .
Source of Data : Public YouTube APIs
Coverage: Publicly available data on native
Latency: Keyword authentication Route : Within 2 hours
Source verified channels: 24-48 hours
Historical Data: Keyword authentication Route : Past 7 days
Source verified channels: Going forward data will be grabbed
Backfill Support: Yes
Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes (Earned & Owned)
For more information, refer to YouTube as a Listening Source .
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 .
Source of Data: Official API - Firehose (All VKontakte posts and engagement stats are available in real-time)
Coverage: Full firehose, Both public & private owned accounts data are available for all content types.
Latency: Near real-time: 1-3 mins
Historical Data: Q2 2020, Full history on owned accounts
Backfill Support: Yes
Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Likes & comments count is updated. Refreshed every 1 hour
Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes
For more information, refer to Vkontakte as a Listening source .
Source of Data: Official Sina Weibo APIs
Coverage: Sina Weibo is a premium listening source, and a limited number of mentions are procured from Sina Weibo as a part of Sprinklr-Weibo annual contract. The broadsearch listening functionality for Sina Weibo is available upon request using a support ticket request
Latency: Within 15-20 minutes
Historical Data: Not available
Backfill Support: No
Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Engagement stats not supported.
Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes
For more information, refer to Sina Weibo as a Listening Source .
Web sources 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 .
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 .
Source of Data: Data Vendors
Coverage: Content coverage from millions of professional and personal blogs for broad search analysis. We also offer comments on a portion of the blogs that we cover.
Latency: Depends on Blog/Website: Less than 24 hrs from time of publication.
Historical Data: Q2 2015
Backfill Support: Yes, for new sources: from the date of addition, for existing sources: all the data that has been fetched.
Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Not updated
Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes
For more information, refer to Blogs/Websites as a Listening source .
Source of Data: Data vendors
Coverage: Content coverage from millions of forums & message boards across dozens of industries including – automotive, beauty/healthcare, consumer electronics, gaming, parenting.
Latency: Depends on Forum Sites – Less than 24 hrs from time of publish.
Historical Data: Q2 2015 (depends on source verification of forums)
Backfill Support: Yes, for a new source from the date of addition, for an existing source all the data that has been fetched.
Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Not updated
Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes
For more information, refer to Forums as a Listening source .
Source of Data: Data vendors and Firehoses.
Coverage: Earned reviews are fetched via Vendors/ Firehose from different review sites. Owned reviews are not supported.
Latency: Depends on Review Sites: Less than 24 hrs from time of publishing.
Historical Data: From the date of addition of product SKU to the review coverage
Backfill Support: Yes
Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Not updated
Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes (Earned)
For more information, refer to Reviews as a Listening source .
Source of Data: Data Vendors
Coverage: Sprinklr supports coverage of 3100+ Classified sources
Latency: Depends on Classified Sites – Less than 24 hrs from time of publish.
Historical Data: From the date of addition to the coverage
Backfill Support: Yes, for a new source from the date of addition, for an existing source, all the data that has been fetched.
Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Not updated
Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes
For more information, refer to Classified as a Listening source .
Source of Data: Data Vendors
Coverage: Sprinklr supports coverage of 1000+ Podcast sources
Latency: Depends on Forum Sites : Less than 24 hrs from time of publish.
Historical Data: Q2, 2021
Backfill Support: Yes, for a new source from the date of addition, for an existing source all the data that has been fetched.
Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Not supported
Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes
For more information, refer to Podcast as a Listening source .
Source of Data: Data Vendors
Coverage: Publically available data
Latency: Within 12 - 24 hours
Historical Data: Q3, 2017
Backfill Support: Yes, from the date of addition of domain inside Sprinklr
Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Not updated
Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes
For more information, refer to Videos as a Listening source .
Source of Data: Stack Exchange Official API
Coverage: All Public Data from site : Stack overflow and serverfault.com
Latency: 5-15 minutes
Historical Data: No, only going forward data is available.
Backfill Support: No
Engagement Stats Refresh Rate
Engagement Stats are updated only for first 24 hours
Every 15 Minute for last 2 hour mention
Every 6 hours for the last 24 hours
Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes
For more information, refer to Stack Exchange as a Listening source .
Traditional sources Source of Data: Datavendor [LexisNexis]
Coverage: Sprinklr includes Broadcast (TV and Radio) with over 2100 channels in all 210 US Nielsen markets, Canada, and the UK.
Latency: Less than 60 Mins
Historical Data: Q3 2017
Backfill Support: Yes
Archive Support: Upto 2 Years
Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes (Earned)
For more information, refer to TV as a Listening Source .
Source of Data: Datavendors [LexisNexis]
Coverage: Sprinklr includes Radio transcripts and audio clips of 750+ major radio sources across US, UK, and Canada.
Latency: Less than 60 Mins
Historical Data: Q3 2017
Backfill Support: Yes
Archive Support: Up to 2 Years
Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes (Earned)
For more information, refer to Radio as a Listening Source .
Source of Data: LexisNexis
Coverage: We cover 13000+ global print sources across all geographies
Latency: Less than 24 hrs
Historical Data: Q3 2014
Backfill Support: Yes
Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Not updated
Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes
For more information, refer to Print as a Listening Source .