We have set up a
special instance of the Darwin Awareness Engine ™ to track social
media buzz. We targeted around 300 of the top social media bloggers and the
relevant news sties. I am now monitoring it and have been finding interesting
things to blog and tweet about. Below is the overall screen. At the top is the
Buzz Tracker ™showing the rising and falling
starts. At the top left you can see that it is set to catch what is happening
in the past hour. The Scan Cloud ™ shows the top
themes emerging in the target sites. The right columns show the stories under
these themes with links to the actual story.
Now here is a
close up of the Scan Cloud so you read it better.
I noticed the
reference to Knoxville in the middle of the Scan Cloud. I clicked on it and
this caused the stories in the right column to shift to thoise related to
Knoxville and I found the two stories about use of social media related to the
recent floods in the area.
Then I looked at
the what was under Twitter in the scan cloud and found these two stories, among
others.
I linked to one
of the stories in OPC Magazine as you can see below.
I have found this
to be a useful additional way to monitor social media buzz and explore topics
that interest me, especially ones that I was not looking for.
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