Topical activity monitor system and method

A method of monitoring topical activity among networked devices of a social communications network, the social communications network communicates related messages between networked devices and maintains share counts of the related messages, and a data communications network includes at least one source of articles, comprising:

• receiving a search item from a data communications network, by a processor communicatively connected to memory containing instructions for the processor and to a database;
• collecting articles by the processor related to the search item from the at least one source of articles of the data communications network;
• storing by the processor in the database, for each respective one of the articles collected, a respective unique identifier representing the article, respectively;
• comparing by the processor the search item to each respective unique identifier, respectively, of the database, to determine similarity of the respective unique identifier to the search item;
• compiling a result set by the processor of each respective unique identifier determined similar to the search item in the step of comparing;
• communicatively detecting by the processor the respective share counts of the related messages of the social communications network related to the result set;
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• deriving a score by the processor based collectively on all of the respective share counts from the step of communicatively detecting, the score represents topical activity of networked devices of the social communications network for the search item.

A method of monitoring topical activity among respective networked devices of each of a plurality of respective social communications networks, each respective social communications network communicates respective related messages between the respective networked devices of the respective social communications network and maintains a respective share count of the respective related messages of the respective social communications network, and a data communications network includes at least one source of articles, comprising:

• receiving a search item from a data communications network by a processor communicatively connected to the data communications network, a database and memory;
• collecting articles by the processor related to the search item from the at least one source of articles of the data communications network;
• storing by the processor in the database, for each respective one of the articles collected, a respective unique identifier representing the article, respectively;
• comparing by the processor the search item to each respective unique identifier, respectively, of the database, to determine similarity of the respective unique identifier to the search item;
• compiling by the processor a result set of each respective unique identifier determined similar to the search item in the step of comparing;
• communicatively detecting by the processor the respective share counts of the respective related messages of each one of the plurality of respective social communications network related to the result set;
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• deriving a score by the processor based collectively on all of the respective share counts from the step of communicatively detecting, the score represents topical activity of all of the respective networked devices of all of the plurality of respective social communications networks for the search item.