Aiding discovery of program content by providing deeplinks into most interesting moments via social media

A system for presenting ranked media content, the system comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a hardware processor that, when executing computer-executable instructions stored in the memory, is configured to:
• retrieve subtitle data for each of a plurality of media programs;
• retrieve a plurality of social media posts, wherein each of the plurality of social media posts includes text data;
• compare, for each of the plurality of media programs, the subtitle data for a media program of the plurality of media programs with the text data from each of the plurality of the retrieved social media posts;
• determine, based on the comparison, a plurality of different portions of the subtitle data for the media program that match at least one of the plurality of social media posts;
• and
• cause at least a portion of the plurality of media programs to be presented for selection by a user based on the plurality of different portions of the subtitle data for each media program that match at least one social media post, wherein the portion of the plurality of media programs is presented with the at least one of the plurality of social media posts.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing computer executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method for presenting ranked media content, the method comprising:

• retrieving subtitle data for each of a plurality of media programs;
• retrieving a plurality of social media posts, wherein each of the plurality of social media posts includes text data;
• comparing, for each of the plurality of media programs, the subtitle data for a media program of the plurality of media programs with the text data from each of the plurality of the retrieved social media posts;
• determining, based on the comparison, a plurality of different portions of the subtitle data for the media program that match at least one of the plurality of social media posts;
• and
• causing at least a portion of the plurality of media programs to be presented for selection by a user based on the plurality of different portions of the subtitle data for each media program that match at least one social media post, wherein the portion of the plurality of media programs is presented with the at least one of the plurality of social media posts.