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Mention Extractor
Pull @mentions and handles out of posts and threads.
Quick Tool Overview
The Mention Extractor pulls @handles out of a thread or a set of posts and ranks them by frequency, giving you the participant list. Email addresses are excluded, since the @ in an address is not a mention and treating it as one fills the list with nonsense.
- What it does
- Extracts and ranks @mentions
- You give it
- A thread, export or set of captions
- You get back
- A ranked list of handles
- Best for
- Finding who is involved in a thread or campaign
About the Mention Extractor
A thread, an export or a set of posts contains a record of who was involved, written as @handles scattered through the text. Pulling that record out by hand is tedious and error-prone the moment the thread runs past a screenful.
This extracts every mention, ranks them by how often each appears, and removes duplicates. The pattern follows what platforms accept for handles, and email addresses are excluded — the @ in an address is not a mention, and a tool that treats it as one produces a list full of nonsense. The result is a clean participant list, which is what you actually wanted.
Key features of the Mention Extractor
Email addresses excluded
An @ preceded by a word character is an address, not a mention — the difference between a useful list and a useless one.
Ranked by frequency
The most mentioned handle is usually the central participant in a thread.
Case folded
Handles are case-insensitive on every major platform, so variants collapse into one entry.
Clean handle boundaries
Matching stops at the first character platforms do not allow, so trailing punctuation is not included.
With or without the @
Copy the list in whichever form the destination expects.
How to use the Mention Extractor
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Paste the thread or posts
A conversation, an export or a set of captions.
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2
Read the ranked handles
Every mention with a count of how often it appears.
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3
Choose the format
With or without the @ symbol, ranked or alphabetical.
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Copy the participant list
Ready to paste into a report, a mention block or a spreadsheet.
Frequently asked questions
No. An @ preceded by a word character is part of an email address rather than the start of a mention, and those are excluded — which is the difference between a useful list and a useless one.
Letters, digits, underscores and, on some platforms, full stops. Handles are matched up to the first character outside that set, so trailing punctuation is not included.
Not on any major platform, so mentions differing only in case are collapsed into one entry by default. There is a switch if you need the exact forms preserved.
That is exactly what the frequency ranking is for. The most mentioned handle in an export is usually the central participant, though it will also catch anyone who was talked about rather than talking.
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