Systems and methods for event detection and clustering

A system for detecting events in and clustering social media postings for display on a user system, the system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• a non-transitory machine readable medium having program instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor performs a method, the method including:
• retrieving, via an application programming interface (API) of a social media system over at least one first communication network, at least one posting of the social media system;
• determining whether the at least one posting has content referring to a predetermined time period;
• upon determining that the at least one posting has content referring to the predetermined time period, determining whether the at least one posting corresponds to an existing cluster of postings related to an event;
• upon determining that the at least one posting corresponds to the existing cluster of postings relating to the event, storing, in at least one database on the non-transistory machine-readable storage medium, the existing cluster of postings modified to include the at least one posting;
• and
• providing, via at least one second communication network, a representation of the modified existing cluster of postings for display on a user system.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium having program instructions, which when executed by at least one processor perform a method of detecting events in and clustering social media postings for display on a user system, the method comprising:

• retrieving, via an application programming interface (API) of a social media system over at least one first communication network, at least one posting of the social media system;
• determining whether the at least one posting has content referring to a predetermined time period;
• upon determining that the at least one posting has content referring to the predetermined time period, determining whether the at least one posting corresponds to an existing cluster of postings related to an event;
• upon determining that the at least one posting corresponds to the existing cluster of postings relating to the event, storing, in at least one database on the non-transistory machine-readable storage medium, the existing cluster of postings modified to include the at least one posting;
• and
• providing, via at least one second communication network, a representation of the modified existing cluster of postings for display on a user system.