Abstract:
A method of identifying and presenting accounts and postings of a social media system may include: retrieving, via at least one communication interface of the social media system, account information for a plurality of social media accounts; classifying, based on the retrieved account information, the plurality of social media accounts according to account type; ranking, based on the retrieved account information, the plurality of social media accounts according to perceived importance or influence; storing, in an account database, a representation of a subset of the plurality of social media accounts having a ranking greater than a predetermined threshold; retrieving, via the at least one API, postings of the stored social media accounts; and generating, for display on a user system, a user interface to present the retrieved social media postings for the stored accounts organized according to at least one of: account type, or ranking.