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Understanding Tags vs. Post Tags

Learn how to categorize messages and posts effectively for better filtering, automation, and analysis.


🏷️ Tag

  • What it applies to: A tag is used to categorize and label individual messages, such as:

    • Comments

    • Direct Messages (DMs)

    • Mentions

  • Purpose: It helps you classify messages for analytics, workflows, reporting, sentiment, or prioritization.

  • Use cases:

    • Tag a DM as a "product question"

    • Tag a comment as "positive sentiment"

    • Tag a mention as "brand inquiry"


Message-Level vs. Conversation-Level Tags in DMs

When tagging Direct Messages (DMs), we recommend using message-level tags, especially when tags trigger automated replies, alerts, or workflows.

  • Message-level tags apply to individual messages, keeping classifications and automations specific to each interaction.

  • Conversation-level tags apply to the entire conversation and can remain active when a customer returns with a new inquiry, potentially triggering automations again.

For example, if a Closed DM tag is used to trigger an automated CSAT survey, applying it to the entire conversation may cause the survey to trigger again when the customer returns with a new message.

How to Apply Message-Level Tags

  1. Open the private conversation in Engage.

  2. Find the message you want to tag.

  3. Click the tag icon next to the message.

  4. Select an existing custom tag or create a new one.

💡 Tip: Use message-level tags for interaction-specific workflows to keep automations relevant and avoid unintended repeat triggers.


📌 Post Tag

  • What it applies to: A post tag is specifically used to categorize and label posts (not individual comments).

  • Purpose: It allows you to group and filter messages by the post they were made on.

  • Use cases:

    • Tag 2+ posts with “Campaign A”

    • Filter all comments, DMs, and mentions that happened under those tagged posts

    • Analyze post-specific performance or run post-specific workflows


✅ Summary

Feature

Tag

Post Tag

Applies to

Messages (DMs, comments)

Posts

Use case

Classify message type/sentiment

Group and filter by post origin

Useful for

Message-level workflows

Post-level analysis and filtering

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