Social watchlist

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

• extracting social network information associated with a first social network user from a social network using a social crawler engine, wherein the social network information includes a social graph depicting relationships between the first social network user and a plurality of social network users;
• identifying a first topic of interest from the social network information;
• determining, from text derived from the social network information, a first social intent, wherein the first social intent categorizes an attitude associated with the first topic of interests comprising positive attitude, negative attitude, or neutral attitude, and wherein the first social intent is determined by searching for key words;
• assigning a first weight for the first topic of interest;
• assigning a second weight for the first social intent;
• determining a first media recommendation associated with the first user according to the first weight for the first topic of interest, the second weight for the first social intent, and the social graph;
• receiving account information from an account associated with the first social network user, wherein the account information comprises a plurality of entitlements;
• determining whether the first media recommendation complies with the plurality of entitlements;
• and
• automatically adding the first media recommendation to a social watchlist associated with the account responsive to the determining the media recommendation complies with the plurality of entitlements, wherein the first media recommendation is placed into the social watchlist according to a weight of the first media recommendation, and wherein the weight of the first media recommendation is based on the first weight for the first topic of interest and the second weight for the first social intent.

A system comprising a processing system including a processor and a memory coupled to the processing system comprising instructions executable by the processing system to perform operations comprising:

• extracting social network information associated with a first social network user from a social network using a social crawler engine, wherein the information includes a social graph depicting relationships between the first social network user and a plurality of social network users;
• identifying a first topic of interest from the social network information;
• determining, from text extracted from the social network information, a first social intent, wherein the first social categorizes an attitude associated with the first topic of interests comprising positive attitude, negative attitude, or neutral attitude, and wherein the first social intent is determined by searching for key words;
• assigning a first weight for the first topic of interest;
• assigning a second weight for the first social intent;
• determining a first media recommendation associated with the first user according to the first weight for the first topic of interest, the second weight for the first social intent, and the social graph;
• receiving account information from an account associated with the first social network user, wherein the account information comprises a plurality of entitlements;
• determining whether the first media recommendation complies with the plurality of entitlements;
• and
• automatically adding the first media recommendation to a social watchlist associated with the first social network user responsive to the determining the media recommendation complies with the plurality of entitlements, wherein the first media recommendation is placed into the social watchlist according to a weight of the first media recommendation, and wherein the weight of the first media recommendation is based on the first weight for the first topic of interest and the second weight for the first social intent.