How Huntit finds new posts
Huntit checks the profiles you track for new posts about every 15 minutes, around the clock. You don't schedule anything and you don't press a button — once a profile is set up, Huntit keeps looking on its own.
A post that goes up on a platform usually appears in your feed within roughly that long.
One exception: a profile that has stopped collecting drops out of the rhythm until you restart it.
Why "found" is later than "posted"
A post exists on its platform the moment its creator publishes it. We only see it at the next check. So the first point on every growth chart is labelled found, and its tooltip says how long after posting that was — unless the platform gave only the posting date, with no time to measure from.
For a post published while its profile is tracked, that gap is usually within about 15 minutes. It can be longer, and that's normal:
- A post that was already up when you added the profile is found at that first collection, hours or days after it was posted.
- Sometimes a platform doesn't hand a post over at the first check. We keep asking, less often each time, and take the post once it comes through — hours, occasionally a day or two.
Tracking runs from found, not from posted, so a post found late has a shorter tracking life. See reading the growth charts.
What "around the clock" means
The 15-minute rhythm runs continuously — overnight, at weekends, on holidays. There's no working-hours window and no manual sweep. A post published at 3 a.m. is found on the same rhythm as one published at midday.
When you'll see the very first posts
Finding new posts is a different rhythm from collecting a profile's past ones.
When you first add a profile, Huntit runs a one-time historical collection of its recent posts, and that takes longer — typically 30–60 minutes. The 15-minute rhythm above is what runs from then on, catching each new post as it appears.
See what happens when you add a profile, and Huntit's clock for how the rhythms fit together.
Instagram collab posts
An Instagram collab is one post made by two or more accounts together. It sits on every account's page, so Huntit collects it for the profile you track even when someone else posted it, and it arrives like any other post.