Curation rules can be based on:
- Post's text
- Author’s username
- Author’s full name
- Author's attributes
- Post's attributes
- Tweet author followers' count, following count or tweets sent count
- Post's language
- The existence of profanity, links or pictures
Let us see some examples in the following image:
Let us build an example
Suppose you want to collect only those posts that contain pictures:
- Click on Add Rule in your Flow curation tab.
- Set a Name (e.g., My example).
- Select Posts / has pictures / no.
- Click on Add.
- Selected posts are rejected if any conditions apply.
- Click on Save.
You should end up with a configuration like this:
Most commonly used Curation Rules
Here are some of the most commonly used curation rules
|
Post | ||
| is a ReTweet |
Yes/No |
Only Twitter |
| contains profanity language |
Yes/No Check out this article if you have doubts about profanity |
All Sources |
| contains links |
Yes/No |
All Sources |
| contains media (1) |
Yes/No |
All Sources |
|
Author's username | ||
| Contains/Does not contain |
Add words |
All Sources |
| is one of / is not one of |
Add accounts |
Instagram and Twitter |
| Contains Emojis |
Supported emojis by this rule are listed here: https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/1.0/emoji-data.txt |
All Sources |
|
Author's full name | ||
| contains |
Add words Prefix, suffix or "word" of the name. E.g., "Sunday Morning" is the name of the user. If you reject "sun", it will not count its tweets. |
All Sources |
| contains some of these words |
Add words The full word inside the name. E.g. "Sunday Morning" is the name of the user. If you reject "sun", it will its tweets count, so you need to reject the word "Sunday". |
All Sources |
| contains some of these phrases |
Add phrases |
All Sources |
| Contains Emojis |
Supported emojis by this rule are listed here: https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/1.0/emoji-data.txt |
All Sources |
|
Post's text | ||
| Contains/does not contain some of these words |
Add words |
All Sources |
| Contains/does not contain some of these phrases |
Add phrases |
All Sources |
| contains some of these hashtags |
Add phrases |
All Sources |
| length is less / more than |
Add number |
All Sources |
| Contains Emojis |
Supported emojis by this rule are listed here: https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/1.0/emoji-data.txt |
All Sources |
|
Number of Author's followers | ||
| is more / less than |
Add number |
Only Twitter |
|
Number of Author's following users | ||
| is more / less than |
Add number |
Only Twitter |
|
Author | ||
| has a default avatar |
Yes / No |
All Sources |
(1) Media implies native images and videos from all supported sources: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. It also works on media from one of these sources or another, e.g., a native YouTube video on a Tweet will get curated. We do not yet support Periscope.
Post contains spelling errors: this is a curation rule that needs to be enabled by your Account Manager. We fully support:
- English
- Spanish
- Portuguese
Check out how this operator works:
- First, it reads the post's language. If it is not ES, PT, or EN, it returns "UNKNOWN".
- The operator has an argument that admits English. If the argument is true when checked against the declared language and English, e.g., "hola world".
- Checks not only the post's full text but also the text from quoted tweets. It avoids checking text in "quotes" or capitalized words like Flowics.
The post is/is not published from: you can select all available sources you need to curate from (typically Twitter, Facebook or Instagram)
A post is/is not from a device: this is a curation rule that also needs to be enabled by your Account Manager. We support Desktop or Mobile for now.
Combine more than one rule from the above to obtain results like accepting tweets that are ReTweets made by a specific account:
Sources support
In general, all curation rules support all sources.
Of course, if the rule itself is specifically talking about a concept in a particular source (e.g., a RT on Twitter), it will only work in that source.