System and method for determining and delivering breaking news utilizing social media

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium tangibly encoded with computer-executable instructions, that when executed by a processor associated with a computing device, performs a method comprising:

• determining a trusted news source from a plurality of news sources, said trust determination based on a determination that the trusted news source communicates newsworthy content via a social media platform, said trusted news source having an associated framing set comprising information associating the trusted news source with a content type;
• determining a plurality of trusted secondary news sources based on the framing set of the trusted news source, said secondary trust determination comprising parsing messages sent by the secondary news sources and identifying content in said messages that matches the framing set information at or above a threshold;
• analyzing, over a network, a plurality of new messages communicated by the trusted secondary news sources, and based on said analysis, detecting a topic commonly mentioned in at least a predetermined number of the new messages;
• identifying, over the network, a social media message respectively communicated by a plurality of users;
• filtering the social media messages communicated by the plurality of users;
• identifying, based on said filtering of the social media messages communicated by the plurality of users, a message subset, each message in the message subset comprising content associated with a common event, each message in the message subset being associated with the detected topic and communicated during a predetermined time window that commences upon the detection of the topic commonly mentioned in at least the predetermined number of new messages;
• analyzing user data of users on a social media platform, said user data providing indications of online and real-world activity performed by the user, said analysis comprising parsing said user data based on said content of the message subset;
• determining, based on said analysis, a set of users to be interested in said detected topic;
• generating a new message serving as a breaking news content message comprising information associated with said common event content;
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• communicating, over a network, the new message to said set of interested users.

A system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the processor, the program logic comprising:
• logic executed by the processor for determining a trusted news source from a plurality of news sources, said trust determination based on a determination that the trusted news source communicates newsworthy content via a social media platform, said trusted news source having an associated framing set comprising information associating the trusted news source with a content type;
• logic executed by the processor for determining a plurality of trusted secondary news sources based on the framing set of the trusted news source, said secondary trust determination comprising parsing messages sent by the secondary news sources and identifying content in said messages that matches the framing set information at or above a threshold;
• logic executed by the processor for analyzing, over a network, a plurality of new messages communicated by the trusted secondary news sources, and based on said analysis, detecting a topic commonly mentioned in at least a predetermined number of the new messages;
• logic executed by the processor for identifying, over the network, a social media message respectively communicated by a plurality of users;
• logic executed by the processor for filtering the social media messages communicated by the plurality of users;
• logic executed by the processor for identifying, based on said filtering of the social media messages communicated by the plurality of users, a message subset, each message in the message subset comprising content associated with a common event, each message in the message subset being associated with the detected topic and communicated during a predetermined time window that commences upon the detection of the topic commonly mentioned in at least the predetermined number of new messages;
• logic executed by the processor for analyzing, via the computing device, user data of users on a social media platform, said user data providing indications of online and real-world activity performed by the user, said analysis comprising parsing said user data based on said content of the message subset;
• logic executed by the processor for determining, based on said analysis, a set of users to be interested in said detected topic;
• logic executed by the processor for generating a new message serving as a breaking news content message comprising information associated with said common event content;
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• logic executed by the processor for communicating, over a network, the new message to said set of interested users.