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What’s new in BirdIQ Desktop?

Version 2.0 – Oct 29, 2020

  • Ability to add and queue up keyword searches
  • Added search prioritization
  • Ability to cancel, remove and restart existing searches
  • Export results as CSV or Excel file
  • Ability to choose which additional processing (Top Retweets, Hashtags, N-grams, etc.) will be included in the exported file (Excel only)

Version 1.9 – Jun 6, 2020

  • Added checkbox for optional additional processing such as Top Hashtags, N-grams, etc.

Version 1.8 – Jun 24, 2018

  • New top quadrigrams summary tab (the top 4 word sequences found in tweets and bios).

Version 1.7 – Apr 23, 2018

  • Support for tweets longer than 140 characters.
  • New top Bigrams and Trigrams summary tabs (the top 2 and 3 word sequences found in tweets and bios).
  • Added 7-day free trials.
  • Now offer monthly subscriptions.
  • Windows users can now download and run an exe file.
  • Mac users can now download and run a dmg or zip file.
  • The output window no longer jumps while searching.

Version 1.6 – Jan 17, 2018

Version 1.5 – Jul 11, 2017

  • Added Influencers tab to identify user with the biggest impact.
  • Added IncluenceScore to search and real-time tools.
  • Bugfix: fixed an issue preventing v1.4 to run with data from an older version was present.
  • Added a temporary log file to record every run.

Version 1.4 – Jul 5, 2017

  • Added real-time tool to capture tweets as they happen.
  • Added followers tool to export all account following the specified accounts
  • Added following tool to export all account the specified accounts follow
  • Added a new Url column you can use to view each tweet online
  • Made the following ID columns text instead of numbers to prevent any issues in Excel: Id, InReplyToStatusId, InReplyToUserId, UserId, CurrentUserRetweetId, RetweetedStatusId, RetweetedStatusUserId

Version 1.3 – Feb 9, 2017

  • Added “RetweetedStatusText” column containing original tweet for retweets
  • The Top Words summary now uses “RetweetedStatusText” whenever it’s available
  • Added more new columns for every tweet: Favorited, Retweeted, PossiblySensitive, and Truncated
  • Added new columns referring to the original tweet for retweets: RetweetedStatusId, RetweetedStatusText, RetweetedStatusSource, RetweetedStatusLang, and RetweetedStatusCreatedAt
  • Added new columns referring to the original tweet’s user for retweets: RetweetedStatusUserId, RetweetedStatusUserName, RetweetedStatusUserScreenName, RetweetedStatusUserTweets, RetweetedStatusUserFavoritesCount, RetweetedStatusUserFollowersCount, RetweetedStatusUserFollowingCount, and RetweetedStatusUserListedCount

Version 1.2 – Jan 5, 2017

  • Added “Words” tab to Excel containing top word counts in tweets
  • Renamed Tweet2XL to BirdIQ

Version 1.1 – Dec – 9, 2016

  • Increased summary tabs from top 10 to all available data
  • Added “-search” command line flag to run last search immediately on start

Version 1.0 – Jul 10, 2016

  • Unlimited Twitter searches
  • Unlimited search results
  • Bulk searches
  • Save tweets to Microsoft Excel
  • Summarize top hashtags, mentions, URLs, users, favorites and retweets in separate tabs
  • Remove duplicate tweets
  • Cross platform app – runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux

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