US Patent 11394722 Social media rule engine

A computer implemented method includes receiving instructions from a user for identifying data on one or more social networks, wherein the instructions received from the user comprise one or more conditions and one or more actions, identifying, on the one or more social networks, data that is associated with one or more social entities, determining one or more characteristics of the identified data, determining, based on the one or more characteristics of the identified data, that the identified data meets one or more conditions for identifying data specified in the instructions received from the user, in response to determining that the identified data meets one or more conditions specified in the instructions received from the user, performing one or more actions specified in the instructions received from the user.