This week, we added new functionality to help you exclude words from being collected.

Exclusion of Words by Search

Some social media don’t allow the use of operators to exclusion of words by search. For example, today Facebook don’t allow any way to exclude words in a search, so same results can “dirty” your monitoring.

How does exclusion by Word work?

Exclusion by word is rule-driven.  This rule and the words or expressions that will be exclude and register like the images below.




You can also choose the period that this exclusion will happen: every day or in some specific period.

How to register words?

You can use words or exact phrases to create your exclusion rules.

For example, if you don’t want to collect items about the Simpsons cartoon in a FOX Channel monitoring, type in the first line the exact phrase, “The Simpsons”, but you don’t need to use quotation marks (” “), just the expression itself.

You can also use regular expressions, like: if your rule needs to exclude items that have the words “have” and “having”, type in the first line the expression /hav(e|ing)/i

In this way, the rule will identify the items that have one of these words. You noticed that in this example were typed slashes in the begin and in the end of the expression (that is necessary for this rule to work) and after that the letter “i”, to be case insensitive. To understand better a regular expression and how it works, look at this website.

PS:

• This rule can’t be applied to older items, the exclusion starts when the rule is completed, and just for new items.
• You can save items in your searches by collecting less items and focusing on what’s needed.
• A very important tip: if the Social Media that you are monitoring allows exclusion operators, like in Twitter the sign “-” (minus), always use that proceeding. To know more about the logic of each Social Media click here.

If you have any questions or suggestions, contact us: help@scup.net.