You name the subreddits, channel pages, boards, listings and profiles you want watched, and ChangeTower loads each one as often as every 5 minutes. When the page changes it emails you what it now says, in plain language, with a dated snapshot of the page.

No. All four block automated access, so ChangeTower cannot load their pages, and there is no setting or workaround that changes it. We would rather say so here than let you find out three weeks in.

The rule is simple enough to check without us: open the page in a private browser window. If it loads without an account, ChangeTower can watch it. If it asks you to sign in, nothing can watch it on your behalf.

YouTube channel and video pages, Reddit subreddits and threads, forums and message boards, review listings such as Trustpilot, G2 and Google Business profiles, App Store and Play listings, and public profiles on Bluesky and Mastodon.

The list is a consequence of one rule rather than an integration list: if the page serves its content to a logged-out visitor, it can be monitored. Platforms move in and out of that set, and a monitor tells you the day a page stops loading rather than going quiet.

No, and the distinction is worth two minutes. A social listening tool goes out on your behalf: it watches platforms, finds mentions you did not know about, and hands you a dashboard. ChangeTower goes nowhere. It watches the pages you added, and only those, so a post on a community you have not named will not reach you.

The honest adjacent thing: on a page you have added, keyword monitoring tells you when a specific string appears. Your brand name turning up in a thread on a board you watch does reach you. That is a page you chose, not a discovery.

Only what is still on the page when the first check runs. Snapshots start the moment you add a monitor: no back catalogue, no way into a page's past, and nothing that was deleted before you arrived.

The record builds fast. A page checked every 5 minutes has nearly three thousand snapshots inside a fortnight. Add the pages you care about before you need them, which is the only genuinely annoying thing about it.

No. The AI summarizes what changed in plain language and classifies it against your rule. It has no opinion about whether a post is good or bad for you, does not measure reach or audience, and produces no scores.

That is deliberate. A number that says "sentiment: 62" about a thread describing a cracked part is not information. The thread, the time it went up and the part it names are.

The alert goes out on the check that finds the change, so the honest answer is: as fast as the cadence you set, and checks run as often as every 5 minutes. A thread that reached the top of the page at 07:40 is in your inbox around 07:41.

The other side, plainly: something posted and deleted between two checks passes unseen, because there was nothing different to find when the monitor looked.

Not if you write criteria. Say what counts, such as "alert me when a post names one of our products, or when a rating or review count moves", and the AI reads every change against that rule.

Vote counts moving, a sidebar edit or a thread sliding down the page is classified and archived without an alert. Pair it with selective monitoring so the monitor reads the thread list rather than the trending rail beside it.

If you can reach it, usually yes. Record the steps that run before each check, and the monitor reaches the same view you would, on your own account. Credentials are stored securely and used only to reach that page.

Two limits, plainly. The monitor reaches exactly what your own account reaches, so a community you have not been admitted to is not something it gets into. And a platform that blocks automated access stays blocked, which you see straight away rather than after a month of silence.

Yes, and it is the part most other approaches miss. A page that loses a post, or carries a title, description or pinned message reworded after publication, is a change like any other.

Nothing announces either of those. No notification re-fires when a video is retitled, and a deleted post leaves no trace on the page. The snapshot taken before it went still holds what it said.

Yes. Selective monitoring points the monitor at one region of the page: the thread list, the ratings block, the pinned post, the uploads table. On a community page that matters more than anywhere else, because the recommended rail and the vote counts change on nearly every check.

The rendered page and the HTML behind it, stored on every check whether the page changed or not, each with a precise timestamp. That is how you can say a thread was at the top of the page at 07:40 on the 14th and show the page. Retention is set per account.

Email, Slack or Microsoft Teams. Alerts route by folder, so each client, category or platform group reaches the person who follows it.

One monitor covers one page, and you can watch as many as your plan allows: six subreddits, a dozen boards, your competitors' channel pages and every listing you are rated on. They all report into one place, so you read one list instead of thirty tabs.

Folders keep each client or category separate and route alerts to whoever follows it, and bulk setup adds a list of pages in a single pass. The daily summary makes the rest liveable: anything that met your criteria has already interrupted you, everything else waits in one email in the morning.

Those cover the big platforms through paid API access, score sentiment and reach across them, and are priced for that. ChangeTower reads the public pages you name, on the platforms that still serve them, and tells you exactly what changed on each one and when.

It is a different job rather than a cheaper version of the same one, and on X or LinkedIn it does not replace them, because it cannot see those platforms at all.