Source health

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Sources

Every item on Bharat Pulse comes from a public Google News RSS feed: Google News' India editions (English, Hindi and seven regional languages), Google News searches for X posts (site:x.com), and Google News searches of the four news agencies' websites. Posts by known X accounts (PM Modi, PMO, the listed opposition leaders, PTI, ANI, IANS and UNI's own accounts: @PTI_News, @ANI, @AHindinews, @ians_india, @IANSKhabar, @uniindianews, and the four people lists below) are read from their public timelines through FxTwitter (api.fxtwitter.com), a free, open-source public service, with Google News as the fallback. Each card says “via Google News” or “via X” and links to the original publisher or X post. Bharat Pulse does not write, edit or summarise any item with AI. The full registry (every feed, its exact URL, language, coverage and refresh interval) is in the Source health table above and at /api/sources.

People lists (Political Monitor)

The Union Ministers, Chief Ministers, Diplomats, Commentators and Party Voices tabs each read a fixed list of public X accounts, kept in one editable file (/people.json). Each account's own posts from the last 14 days (up to 4 per account) are read through FxTwitter, with Google News as the fallback. A tab's accounts are fetched only when the tab is opened, a few at a time; each account is time-boxed so a slow one cannot hold up the rest, and the server keeps each batch for 5 minutes. Accounts with no account on X, or no readable posts in the window, are shown greyed out as “no recent posts”.

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X Monitor

Search Monitor reads Google News' index of x.com (site:x.com plus your keyword, last 7 days, English and Hindi editions), because the free X reader has no search; results can lag minutes to hours and do not include every post. Account Watch reads each watched account's latest public posts (about 20) through FxTwitter, with the like, repost, reply and view counts it returns, and falls back to Google News. Trend Analytics charts only those numbers and the keyword counts this browser saved each time a search ran; nothing is estimated, and browser snapshots are not shared history. Alerts run only while the page is open: every 5 minutes it checks saved keywords and watched accounts, flags new posts, and flags a spike when the last hour has at least 3 posts and at least 3× the average hourly volume before it. Background or phone push alerts need a server (Phase 2). Account Compare (in Trend Analytics) reads up to 5 pages of each account's own timeline from FxTwitter (20 posts per page, so about 100 recent posts; reposts are left out because their counts belong to someone else) and shows likes, reposts, replies, quotes, bookmarks and views exactly as returned. Impressions are X's view counts; engagement rate = (likes + reposts + replies + quotes) ÷ views, over posts that have a views count. A pinned post doesn't count as coverage. For busy accounts 100 posts can cover less than a month, so each account shows the date its data starts; older dates need the official X API (Phase 2). Posts read are kept in this browser (up to 400 per account) so history builds up on that device. Keywords, watched accounts (up to 25), compare history and alerts are stored in this browser only.

Collection, refresh and time

• Refresh: the server re-reads a feed at most once every 5 minutes, and only when someone views that section; results are cached for 5 minutes. Your browser asks for new data every 5 minutes without reloading the page. There is no background scheduler, so when nobody visits, nothing is collected.
• Published time is the publication time Google News reports for the item (for posts read from X, the time the post went up on X). Received time is when Bharat Pulse's server fetched the feed that contained it. All times are shown in IST (UTC+05:30).
• Near real-time, not live: an item appears only after Google News indexes it; that typically takes minutes to hours. In our checks on 29 Oct 2026 a typical item was 5–13 hours old.
• When a feed fails: the server serves its last good copy (marked “source temporarily unavailable”), and your browser falls back to the copy it saved last (marked “showing saved data”), never a made-up item.

Duplicates

Identical links are shown once (tracking parameters such as utm_* are ignored). Different outlets' headlines are grouped into one card with an “N sources” button only when they share at least 5 meaningful words and either 60% of all their words overlap, or 85% of the shorter headline (6+ words) appears in the longer one. Common words (“the”, “के”, “news”…) are ignored. The rule is deliberately cautious: two different stories are never merged on a few shared words, so some true duplicates stay separate.

Public trackers: hashtag matching rules

The “Public: Support” and “Public: Criticism” tabs are hashtag-based trackers, not sentiment analysis. A post appears when Google News returns it for the search terms below and its text contains one of the “keep” words.

Excluded

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Known biases and false-positive risks

• The hashtag lists were chosen by hand on 29 Oct 2026 from what Google News was returning; they cover a few campaigns, not public opinion as a whole.
• A post can use a hashtag to mock it, quote it or report on it; it still lands in that tab.
• When the post author is unknown (common on this server), party, minister and media posts can slip through the exclusion rules.
• Volume reflects what Google News chose to index, not how many people posted.

Keyword tags on cards (experimental)

Some cards carry one of four tags from a word list that runs in your browser (no AI): Matched support-related keywords, Matched criticism-related keywords, Mixed (both kinds matched) or Unclassified (no list word matched). The number in brackets is how many list words matched. This is not sentiment analysis and there is no confidence score.

• Limits: it reads only Hindi, Hinglish and English; it cannot detect sarcasm, quotes, questions or reporting of someone else's words; a simple “not / नहीं” check flips a word but misses most negation; it tags official posts too, so a tag describes the words used, not public opinion.

Data status labels

The chip in the header uses the latest source-health check, evaluated in this order:

• Unavailable no successful collection yet, or fewer than half of the checked feeds answered.
• Delayed the last successful collection is more than 15 minutes old (three missed 5-minute cycles).
• Partial at least one feed failed, or more than 20% of feeds returned no items.
• Updated everything else: collected within 15 minutes, no feed errors, at most 20% empty.

A feed is counted as stale when it answered but its newest item is older than 12 hours (24 hours for the PM's own-post feeds, 72 hours for the opposition leaders' own-post feeds, which look back 3 days). Stale feeds are reported, but do not change the chip, because Google News indexing delay makes some staleness normal.

History and coverage gaps

• History: there is no server-side archive. Feeds return roughly the last 24 hours (3 days for single opposition leaders). Trend lines use snapshots saved in your own browser since your first visit (the Trends page shows when tracking began in this browser).
• Languages: Google News has no Kannada, Urdu or Odia edition for India, so those languages are not covered.
• X posts: known accounts (PM Modi, PMO, the listed opposition leaders, PTI, ANI, IANS, UNI) are read from their public timelines through FxTwitter, a free public service that X does not run; if it stops answering, the page falls back to Google News' index of X, which is hours late. Every other X post comes only from Google News' index, so most posts never appear and their authors are often unknown on this server. PTI and UNI have no Hindi X account that these sources return.
• Profile photos: saved copies for the fixed list of leaders and agencies; for other accounts, the photo X shows publicly, fetched by this site. When no photo can be found, the card shows the account's initials.
• Small states and UTs are often thin or empty in a 24-hour window.
• Not available (need a server database, accounts or paid/official APIs): shared history and server scheduling, alerts, accounts and audit log, official X API data, coordinated-activity detection, AI sentiment.

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