Tracking & data
How posts are found and tracked, and how long your data is kept.
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- How Huntit finds new postsHuntit checks the profiles you track for new posts about every 15 minutes, around the clock — so a fresh post shows up within roughly that long.
- A post's tracking lifeHuntit re-checks a new post closely at first, then more slowly, until day 30 — when it's marked Complete. Old posts arrive Not tracked; a post that leaves its platform reads Unavailable.
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- What happens when you add a profileYou paste a profile's link, pick how many past posts to collect, and Huntit validates it and starts a one-time historical collection — typically 30–60 minutes.
- Tracking frequency & windowTwo settings control how often Huntit re-checks a post — frequency for its first 24 hours, window for the days after. You pick both per profile, on each content format it collects.
- Pausing tracking — client, brand, or profilePause at any level and new collection genuinely stops — the whole client, one brand, or a single profile. Grey means paused; posts published while paused aren't collected.
- Supported platforms and which metrics each exposesHuntit tracks TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, and Facebook — but each platform exposes a different set of metrics, so some cells honestly read "—".
- Reading the growth chartsA post's growth chart plots each check-in from "found" onward, shows honest gaps where a check-in was missed, and lists every reading in the tracking log.
- How long Huntit keeps your dataHuntit keeps posts for 12 months. Past that, posts you've badged, favorited, or analyzed stay indefinitely — and your performance history is never swept.
- Exporting your dataTwo ways to export — the bulk ZIP of CSVs in Settings, behind its own permission, and a per-view CSV from the feed and Winners toolbars.
- Huntit's clock — your timezone and the rhythmsHuntit runs on one agency-wide timezone, and its work follows steady rhythms — new posts every 15 minutes, a weekly refresh, monthly resets, and reports on the 3rd.