Twitter Tracking Rules
In Admin – Settings – click on the Twitter icon. Click on Tracking Rules tab, screen displays;
| | - When you want to ReTweet anything you can nominate a template for use here.
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| | - This is the Twitter Account that we will be searching for any mentions, searches, or hashtags as detailed below.
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- Update
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| | - Enabled – default display is enabled twitter tracking rules
- Disabled – select to display on disabled twitter tracking rules
- All – select to display both enabled and disabled tracking rules
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| | - Default display is from Admin – Settings – General Settings – Default Page Size
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| | - To create a new tracking rule click Add Tracking Rule button.
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| | - Displays the tracking rule type; Search Mentions, Keyword Search, or Hashtags.
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| | - Displays the tracking rule pattern, i.e. what we are tracking.
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| | - If the tracking rule is active, the check box under the ‘Enabled’ column will be populated.
- If the check box is not populated the tracking rule will not be used.
- It is a good idea to preserve your historical tracking rules for future use by changing these to disabled rather than deleting them completely.
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| | - If a search based on a geographical location is ticked (field on Twitter tracking rule setup = Limit Search to Geographic Area) then the searching that will be applied is based on the latitude, longitude and radius as defined on the rule itself.
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| | - Displays the geographical latitude.
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| | - Displays the geographical longitude.
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| | - Displays the geographical radius, that is how many miles (or KM’s) from the central point do you want searching to be made.
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- Edit
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| | - Select the tracking rule type to be applied to this rule.
- Search Mentions – @mention will be tracked
- Keyword Search – keyword can be tracked, if there are multiple keywords to be search together they need to be contained within “ “
- Hashtags – #hashtagnames will be tracked
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| | - Enter the pattern to be tracked for mentions, keyword, and hashtags.
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| | - Tick to enable this tracking rule, leave un-ticked for disabled.
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- Limit Search to Geographic Area
| - Tick indicates the geographical search rules will be applied, leave un-ticked if geographical search is not to be used.
- When enabled the latitude and longitude settings will determine the central point in which to apply the radius miles(or KM’s) to search against. For example the following longitude / latitude setting examples are for the Isle of Man, from here in a 352 mile radius would limit your twitter account from picking up and displaying posts from UK ‘tweet’ posters.
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| | - The latitude point (e.g. 54.19458336016267) which when combined with the longitude point determines the central point to start geographically searching for Tweets from.
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| | - The longitude point (e.g. -4.597784320312485) which when combined with the latitude point determines the central point to start geographically searching for Tweets from.
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| | - This is how many miles/kilometres from the central point (latitude / longitude meeting points) that the site will include in the search for Tweets.
- Radius can be held in miles or kilometres.
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- Save
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- Note that duplicate tracking rules can’t be created (that is Unique tracking rule type and tracking rule combination). Geographic search is not taken into consideration.
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- Close
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Example showing searchable area that is restricted to the UK and Ireland;
Select Search Area
A central point search location can be selected by manually entering a latitude and longitude. Or using the map, the pointer can be moved to the appropriate central point.
Click on select search area, screen displays;
- Map Pointer
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- Radius Pointer
 | - Use the radius pointer to increase or reduce the radius size. When the pointer is moved, the radius value will be automatically updated.
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| | - The latitude point (e.g. 54.19458336016267) which when combined with the longitude point determines the central point to start geographically searching for Tweets from.
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| | - The longitude point (e.g. -4.597784320312485) which when combined with the latitude point determines the central point to start geographically searching for Tweets from.
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| | - This is how many miles/kilometres from the central point (latitude / longitude meeting points) that the site will include in the search for Tweets.
- Radius can be held in miles or kilometres.
- If the radius distance type is changed between miles and kilometres, the radius value is recalculated to fit the type. The actual distance is not changed; just how it is measured will be changed.
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- Close
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Note: F5 refresh will return the map to the original last saved location.
