Audience identification and interest determination from targeted topical activity system and method

A system for building sets of user devices communicatively connected to a computer network system, the user devices, respectively, having respective network identifiers and each exhibiting related topical activity of articles in a subnetwork of the computer network system detected by an article server communicatively connected to the computer network system, comprising:

• a server device communicatively connected to the computer network system;
• storage communicatively connected to the server device, the storage includes instructions for controlling the server device in:
• collecting articles by the server device, available from the article server;
• cataloging the articles via a respective topic for each article;
• and
• querying the subnetwork for the respective network identifiers of the user devices corresponding to the articles.

A system for building sets of user devices communicatively connected to a communications network, the user devices, respectively, having respective network identifiers and each exhibiting related topical activity of particular articles in a subnetwork of the communications network detected by a server communicatively connected to the subnetwork, the server includes a group of articles, including the particular articles, comprising:

• a collector communicatively connected to the communications network for obtaining the group of articles from the server;
• a topic identifier communicatively connected to the collector, the topic identifier determines a subset of the group of articles corresponding to a topic;
• a query device communicatively connected to the identifier and the communications network, the query device communicates over the communications network with the subnetwork obtaining the respective network identifiers of the user devices, respectively, interactive with the subset;
• and
• a reporter communicatively connected to the query device for delivering the respective network identifiers of the user devices, respectively, interactive with the subset.

A method, comprising:

• collecting a group of articles by a server device communicatively connected to a communications network, from an article server communicatively connected to the communications network;
• identifying a respective topic of each article of the group;
• querying by the server device over the communications network to a social network server of a social communications network, for respective network identifiers of user devices, respectively, interactive with a particular article of the group corresponding to a particular respective topic;
• and
• reporting by the server device the respective network identifiers of the user devices, respectively, interactive with the particular article.