Topical activity monitor and identity collector system

A method of monitoring topical activity and collecting identities of networked devices of a social communications network, the social communications network communicates related messages between networked devices and maintains a share count of the related messages, a data communications network includes at least one source of articles, and a respective unique identity of each of the networked devices is maintained by a server having an API and intermediating communications among the networked devices, comprising:

• receiving by a processor a search item from a data communications network;
• collecting articles by the processor related to the search item from each of the at least one source of articles of the data communications network;
• storing by the processor in a database, for each respective one of the article from the step of collecting, a respective unique identifier representing the article;
• comparing by the processor the search item to each respective unique identifier, respectively, of the database, to determine similarity of the respective unique identifier to the search item;
• compiling by the processor a result set of each respective unique identifier determined similar to the search item in the step of comparing;
• communicatively detecting by the processor the share count of the messages of the social communications network related to the result set;
• deriving by the processor a score based collectively on all of the share counts from the step of communicatively detecting, the score represents topical activity of networked devices of the social communications network for the search item;
• calling by the processor the API of the server intermediating communications among the networked devices of the social communications network;
• receiving by the processor the identities of the networked devices of the social communications network;
• and
• storing by the processor the identities in a database in a storage.

A method of monitoring topical activity among respective networked devices of each of a plurality of respective social communications networks, each respective social communications network communicates respective related messages between the respective networked devices of the respective social communications network and maintains a respective share count of the respective related messages of the respective social communications network, a data communications network includes at least one source of articles, and a respective unique identity of each of the networked devices is maintained by a respective server of the respective social communications network, the respective server has a respective API and intermediates communications among the respective networked devices of the respective social communications network, comprising:

• receiving by a processor a search item from a data communications network;
• collecting by the processor articles related to the search item from each of the at least one source of articles of the data communications network;
• storing by the processor in a database, for each respective one of the article from the step of collecting, a respective unique identifier representing the article;
• comparing by the processor the search item to each respective unique identifier, respectively, of the database, to determine similarity of the respective unique identifier to the search item;
• compiling by the processor a result set of each respective unique identifier determined similar to the search item in the step of comparing;
• communicatively detecting by the processor the respective share count of the respective related messages of each one of the plurality of respective social communications network related to the result set;
• deriving by the processor a score based collectively on all of the respective share counts from the step of communicatively detecting, the score represents topical activity of all of the respective networked devices of all of the plurality of respective social communications networks for the search item;
• calling by the processor the respective API of the respective server intermediating communications among the respective networked devices of the respective social communications network, for each of the respective social communications network;
• receiving by the processor the respective identities of the respective networked devices of the respective social communications network, for each of the respective social communications network;
• and
• storing by the processor the respective identities for each of the respective social communications network, in a database in a storage.