System and Method for Automatically Selecting Images to Accompany Text

A system for selecting an image to accompany text from a user in connection with a social media post, comprising a processor and a tangible storage medium, said tangible storage medium comprising code executable by the processor for performing steps comprising:

• receiving text from the user;
• performing sentiment analysis on the text to generate search terms;
• identifying candidate images from images in one or more image databases using the search terms;
• presenting one or more candidate images to the user;
• receiving from the user a selected image from the one or more candidate images;
• generating the social media post comprising the selected image and the user-submitted text, wherein the graphical social media post is of a similar size and of a similar shape as the selected image, and wherein the graphical social media post comprises the text displayed superimposed on the selected image;
• transmitting the social media post for display;
• and
• wherein the user-submitted text further comprises one or more search terms and the sentiment analysis performance comprises identifying those search terms.