Method and system tracking and determining public sentiment relating to social media

A system comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processing device communicably coupled to the memory, the processing device to:
• identify a plurality of re-posts of a post, wherein each re-post comprises a time stamp;
• determine whether the time stamp of the re-post is within a first time interval or a second time interval;
• increment a first count associated with the first time interval when the time stamp is within the first time interval or a second count associated with the second time interval when the time stamp is within the second time interval;
• determine a public sentiment attribute associated with the post in view of a comparison between the first count associated with the first time interval and the second count associated with the second time interval;
• and
• transmit to a user interface of a computer processor a message comprising the public sentiment attribute to provide a user with a measure of an expansion rate of the post in view of the comparison.

A non-transitory computer readable storage device including instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to execute operations comprising:

• identifying, by a processing device, a plurality of re-posts of a post, wherein each re-post comprises a time stamp;
• determining, by the processing device, whether the time stamp of the re-post is within a first time interval or a second time interval;
• incrementing, by the processing device, a first count associated with the first time interval when the time stamp is within the first time interval or a second count associated with the second time interval when the time stamp is within the second time interval;
• determining, by the processing device, a public sentiment attribute associated with the post in view of a comparison between the first count associated with the first time interval and the second count associated with the second time interval;
• and
• transmitting, by the processing device, to a user interface of a computer processor, a message comprising the public sentiment attribute to provide a user with a measure of an expansion rate of the post in view of the comparison.