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The Secret Service is looking to buy sophisticated social media monitoring software that can detect when people are being sarcastic, among other things. The agency is specifically interested in Twitter, according to a spokesperson, who told The Washington Post that tweets would help the agency make better decisions in security emergencies.
The software must provide real-time analysis, keyword searches, sentiment analysis, influencer identification, and "ability to detect sarcasm and false positives," among other requirements. The sarcasm detector would likely allow the Secret Service to better judge the seriousness of a threat made on Twitter.
The agency also seems interested in its own popularity. Its feature requests include the "ability to quantify the agency's social media outreach/footprint." It must also be compatible with Internet Explorer 8, the agency notes.
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The software must provide real-time analysis, keyword searches, sentiment analysis, influencer identification, and "ability to detect sarcasm and false positives," among other requirements. The sarcasm detector would likely allow the Secret Service to better judge the seriousness of a threat made on Twitter.
The agency also seems interested in its own popularity. Its feature requests include the "ability to quantify the agency's social media outreach/footprint." It must also be compatible with Internet Explorer 8, the agency notes.
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This should go well