Systems and methods for visualization of electronic social network content

A system for visualization of electronic social network content, the system comprising:

• a processor;
• a memory in electronic communication with the processor for processing the following:
• a content collection engine to collect electronic social network content from one or more electronic social network platforms and store the collected electronic social network content in the memory, the electronic social network content comprising a plurality of mentions, wherein each mention of the plurality of mentions comprises an instance of electronic social network content provided by a single author;
• a monitor engine to receive input specifying one or more search criteria to define a monitor, the monitor engine configured to identify mentions of the electronic social network content that match the one or more search criteria;
• and
• a display engine to provide a visualization of the identified mentions on a display of a computing device, the visualization comprising a plurality of graphical depictions that are representative of at least a portion of the identified mentions of the electronic social network content identified by the monitor engine, each graphical depiction of the plurality of graphical depictions corresponding to a single mention of the plurality of mentions, each graphical depiction presented on a timeline that is representative of a period of time corresponding to when at least a portion of the collected electronic social network content was provided to the one or more electronic social network platforms, and provide a visualization of related mentions by displaying, on the timeline, one or more lines each representing a connection between the corresponding graphical depictions of the related mentions,
• wherein each graphical depiction is presented on the timeline at a position corresponding to a time at which the corresponding mention was provided to a respective electronic social network platform and with a size that is indicative of a relative level of influence of the author of the corresponding mention.