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The new Keyword Monitor

Thank you for always using SocialDog.

Today, we have resumed the provision of the Keyword Monitor. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

With the new Keyword Monitor, you can retrieve tweets that match keywords from tweets posted within the past 30 days (excluding private tweets).

  • Tweets are not retrieved automatically. You need to perform the operation at the timing you wish to retrieve them.
  • The CSV file delivery service for Keyword Monitor will be discontinued. You can now download CSV files directly from the SocialDog screen.

Features​

Search from tweets within the past 30 days​

With the new Keyword Monitor, you can search among tweets from the past 30 days (excluding private tweets). Previously, only tweets posted after the Keyword Monitor was set up could be retrieved.

Ability to retrieve more tweets​

With the Business Plan, you can retrieve up to 15,000 tweets per month. This can also be used for running Contests where you ask users to tweet with specific Hashtags.

Important: Regarding retrieval methods​

With the new Keyword Monitor, you need to retrieve tweets manually.

You can retrieve tweets by clicking "Get Latest Tweets" on the target Keyword Monitor page in your "Inbox". You can select the number of tweets to retrieve in increments of 500.

  • You can retrieve tweets within the limit of Retrieval times (described later).
  • The function to notify new keywords via Slack, email, or push Notifications has been discontinued.
  • You cannot retrieve tweets older than those already retrieved. If you want to retrieve tweets from further in the past, you can do so by adding a new Keyword Monitor setting.

Limit on Retrieval times​

The number of times tweets can be retrieved varies by Plan.

Number of retrievable times in the past month (Note 1) (Note 2)​

  • Business Plan: 30 Retrieval times × Number of SNS profiles
  • Pro Plan: 10 Retrieval times × Number of SNS profiles

Note 1: Regarding "the past month"​

Please note that this is not the number of times from the beginning to the end of the month.

Example: If the current date and time is "June 15, 2023 15:00", the remaining Retrieval times at that point will be calculated based on the Retrieval times from "May 16, 2023 15:00 to June 15, 2023 15:00".

Note 2: Regarding how Retrieval times are counted​

The number of tweets that can be retrieved per Retrieval is 500, and you can increase or decrease the number of tweets to be retrieved in units of 500. (With the Business Plan, you can retrieve up to 15,000 tweets by consuming 30 Retrieval times).

Also, the number of Retrieval times consumed is determined by the actual number of tweets retrieved.

Example: If you set "Number of tweets to retrieve" to 1,500 tweets, and the actual search result was 700 tweets, the Retrieval times consumed will be 2.

Future of Keyword Monitor​

Going forward, we plan to improve the system so that tweets can be retrieved automatically. We also aim to display tweets that match keywords in real time.

SocialDog Co., Ltd. has concluded an agreement with X Corp. (formerly Twitter Inc.) regarding the use of Twitter Enterprise API, a paid version of the Twitter API. The Keyword Monitor, which we have resumed providing, was developed using the Full Archive Search API, a feature of the Twitter Enterprise API. We will continue to strive for development to provide features that maximize the use of Twitter Enterprise API, aiming to satisfy all of you.

We appreciate your continued patronage.

Paid plan feature restrictions due to Twitter API monetization

Lite Plan (free plan) feature restrictions: Please refer to the previous announcement.

We have decided to partially change the content of feature restrictions for paid plans from the initial announcement. As a result, additional feature restrictions will apply to our users. We apologize for the inconvenience, but please check again (Added May 30, 2023).

We have resumed providing the Followers management and Followers analytics features (Added June 8, 2023).

Thank you for always using SocialDog.

We would like to inform you that, due to the paid nature of the Twitter API, we have decided to restrict some features available in SocialDog's paid plans.

To all our users, we sincerely apologize for this sudden announcement.

As the Twitter API usage fees after the monetization are extremely high, we decided to significantly restrict the features of the Lite Plan (free plan) starting from May 16, 2023. However, upon scrutinizing Twitter API usage within SocialDog, it became clear that it would be difficult to keep within the Twitter API usage limits by restricting only the Lite Plan features. Therefore, we regret to inform you that we have decided to restrict some features for paid plans as well.

Going forward, to meet your expectations, we will utilize the Enterprise API, which will become newly available due to the Twitter API monetization, to provide even more sophisticated and stable services than ever before. Regarding the Keyword Monitor, which will be significantly restricted this time, we plan to rebuild it using the Enterprise API, and provide features to retrieve and notify Post in real-time, as well as the ability to search Post from the past 30 days.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause to our users and kindly ask for your understanding.

Changes​

For features available in paid plans, we will make the following Changes.

 Feature

 Business Plan

 Pro Plan

 Lite+ (formerly Basic) Plan (including formerly Pro Plan (2016) and formerly Pro Plan (2017))

 Data Acquisition*1

 Up to once per day

 Up to once per day

 Up to once per day

 Confirming @tweets (Inbox)** (Updated May 30, 2023)**

 Available (no change)

 Discontinued

 Discontinued

 Keyword Monitor** (Updated May 30, 2023)**

 Temporarily suspended (from around June 1, 2023. Measures during suspension period are described later)

 Temporarily suspended (from around June 1, 2023. Measures during suspension period are described later)

 Discontinued

 Sent Follow Request Display*2

 Discontinued

 Discontinued

 Discontinued

 RSS Auto post Max Posts per Past Month*3

** (Updated June 8, 2023)**

 300

 100

 30

 Confirming tweets posted using services other than SocialDog (Post history)

** (Updated May 30, 2023)**

 No change

 Discontinued

 Discontinued

 Followers Management

** (Updated June 8, 2023)**

 Resumed

 Resumed

 Resumed

  Like tweets

** (Updated June 8, 2023)**

 Discontinued

 Discontinued

 Discontinued

  • *1 "Data Acquisition" retrieves Post history, Follow/Followers, and @tweets. In addition to data acquisition from Twitter performed automatically on the server, it includes the data acquisition feature that can be manually performed from the arrow button (Get latest data from Twitter) in the upper left corner of the SocialDog screen.
  • *2 "Sent Follow Request Display" is a feature in the Followers Management function that indicates whether a Follow request has been sent to a private Account. Follow requests can still be made in the future.
  • *3 "RSS Auto post Monthly Post Limit" refers to the maximum number of tweets that can be posted via RSS Auto post in the most recent month (Updated June 8, 2023). This is a newly Added restriction. If the "RSS Auto post Monthly Post Limit" is reached, tweets exceeding the limit will not be posted.

Date of Change​

May 22, 2023 (Changes will be implemented sequentially)

  • The Changes to the "Confirming @tweets" feature, "Keyword Monitor," and "Confirming tweets posted using services other than SocialDog (Post history)" feature are scheduled for June 1, 2023.

About Temporarily Suspended Features (Updated June 13, 2023)​

Keyword Monitor​

Due to contractual issues with the Twitter API, the provision of Keyword Monitor will be temporarily suspended. However, Keyword Monitor will be rebuilt using the paid version of the Twitter API, Enterprise API (Full Archive Search), and will be released in the near future.

Q&A​

Q. What is the Twitter API?​

A. The Twitter API is a mechanism that allows external services to utilize Twitter data. Twitter announced its monetization in March 2023.

Q. What happens if I have already set up RSS Auto post?​

A. RSS Auto post that has been set up previously will continue to operate. However, if the number of tweets posted via RSS Auto post in one month exceeds the "RSS Auto post Monthly Post Limit," the RSS Auto post will cease to function.

We sincerely apologize for any great inconvenience caused to our customers due to these Changes in our services. We also deeply apologize for any trouble caused by these sudden Changes.

SocialDog will continue to strive for daily development to provide services that satisfy all our users.

We kindly ask for your continued patronage.

Follower Management and Follower Analytics re-enabled

Thank you for always using SocialDog.

Today, we have resumed providing the follower management and follower analytics features. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Resumed Features​

If your Twitter Account is private, the following features are not available.

  • Analytics
    • We have made it possible to check information such as new follows and New followers displayed on the Dashboard and in follower Analytics again.
  • Followers
    • We have made it possible to check information such as users you are Following and Followers again.

Background of Feature Resumption​

To address the recent monetization of the Twitter API, we have switched the source of Follow and follower information to a joint initiative with NTT DATA's "Nazuki no Oto".

Regarding Follow, Unfollow, Mute, Block, and Likes Operations​

We regret to inform you that the features allowing the following operations on SocialDog have been abolished. From now on, these operations must be performed on Twitter's interface.

  • Follow
  • Unfollow
  • Mute
  • Block
  • Likes

With the monetization of the Twitter API, limits have been imposed on API usage. Therefore, we determined that it would be difficult to provide these features without exceeding the API limits.

Regarding Follow and follower information, we have changed it to a format that does not use the Twitter API by switching to a joint initiative with NTT DATA's "Nazuki no Oto". However, since operations such as Follow and unfollow are not provided, we unfortunately had to abolish these features.

We apologize for not meeting your expectations. We will continue to explore options to reintroduce these features in the future.

Note​

New follows, unfollows, New followers, and unfollows that occurred during the feature suspension period will be displayed as if they occurred after the features were resumed.

Therefore, the numbers for new follows, unfollows, New followers, and unfollows may appear to have increased sharply. We apologize, but this data cannot be restored.

SocialDog will continue to strive daily for development to provide services that satisfy all users.

We appreciate your continued patronage.

Discontinuing the "Log in with Twitter" feature

Thank you for your continued use of SocialDog.

We would like to inform you that we will be discontinuing the "Log in with Twitter" feature on SocialDog to enhance Security and respond to the paid Twitter API.

From now on, please log in using the email address and Password registered with SocialDog.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and we appreciate your understanding.

About the Discontinuation of the "Log in with Twitter" Feature​

  • Discontinuation Date: June 1, 2023 (Thursday)

After this date, you will need your email address and Password to log in to SocialDog.

※ Please note: Users who registered with SocialDog on or after May 30, 2023, are already unable to log in with Twitter, so this Change will not affect them.

If you have forgotten the email address registered with SocialDog​

Please check your email Inbox for emails from SocialDog (such as Daily reports or Notices from SocialDog). The email address receiving emails from SocialDog is the one registered with SocialDog.

If you have not set a Password / If you have forgotten your Password​

If you have not set a Password for SocialDog or have forgotten your Password, you can set one using the following method.

※ Please note: You may perform the following steps on or after June 1, 2023 (Thursday).

  1. Click "Forgot Password".
  2. Enter the email address registered with SocialDog.
  3. Follow the instructions in the email sent to the entered email address to set your Password.

SocialDog will continue to strive daily to develop and provide services that satisfy all users.

We kindly ask for your continued support.