Radar

Saved queries the platform watches for you, with the volume, the accounts and every new match reported back.

Search answers a question once. Radar keeps asking it. You save a query, and every post that matches it from that moment on is collected, counted and charted for you.

Radar is part of Sapphire Ultra, which can keep 10 trackers at a time.

Writing a query

A tracker takes the same operators search does: from:, has:, type:, lang:, likes:, replies:, quoted phrases for an exact match, and a leading minus to exclude a term. A name can be up to 60 characters and the query itself up to 500.

A tracker watches from the moment you save it, so operators that only make sense against history are ignored rather than silently changing what you get. The form says which ones when it happens.

What a tracker shows

Posts: How many matched, as a column chart over the last 24 hours, 3 days or 7 days.
Accounts: How many separate accounts are behind those posts, which is what separates a conversation from one person repeating themselves.
Engagement: The reaction the matches drew.
Matches: The posts themselves, newest first.

Alerts

Each tracker can notify you after a set number of new matches, from 1, 5, 10 or 25. Alerts are per tracker and can be switched off without deleting the tracker, which is the difference between watching a term and being interrupted by it.

A tracker sees exactly what its owner would see in search, and nothing else. Private accounts, blocks, Space-scoped posts and subscriber-only posts are filtered by the same rule the interactive search uses, so a tracker cannot become a way around any of them. A tracker is visible only to the account that saved it.