The document summarizes a presentation about the Keepr tool for journalists to mine breaking news from social media. It includes an agenda, background on the presenter's previous work on Eddi and Twitter trends detection, a demo of the Keepr tool searching tweets and visualizing topics, and a discussion of the concept of "breaking news" and how social media contributes to event context and narrative.

1. Keepr demo
MIT Center for
Civic Media
Hong Qu
Nieman Visiting Fellow
April 11, 2013
Friday, April 12, 2013

2. Agenda
About me
Project overview
Previous research
Eddi
Twitter trends detection
Demo and feedback
Friday, April 12, 2013

3. About me
2003 2006 2011 2012
Friday, April 12, 2013

4. Project overview
Keepr is a tool for journalists to data mine breaking news in social media to get
highlights as events are unfolding.
Topic discovery
Entity extractions
keywords, users, links, media
Search query expansion
Design process
https://hackpad.com/About-Keepr-9Ns5vU6e8V7
Friday, April 12, 2013

5. Eddi project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcUVQa1uqcg
Eddi: interactive topic-based browsing of social status streams
Michael H. Bernstein, Bongwon Suh, Lichan Hong, Jilin Chen, Sanjay Kairam, Ed H. Chi
UIST '10: Proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, ACM, New York, NY, USA (2010), pp. 303-312
Friday, April 12, 2013

6. Twitter trends detection
Video Lecture: Kostas T. on How To Detect Twitter Trends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duHxpSTmwW0&t=3m35s
Friday, April 12, 2013

7. Demo
http://www.keepr.com/demo
Search for news OR “from:cnnbrk OR from:breakingnews OR from:BBCBreaking OR from:AP+BREAKING:”
100 Topic 100
recent discovery recent
tweets tweets
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Friday, April 12, 2013

8. Email alert
https://ifttt.com/recipes/89115
Friday, April 12, 2013

9. Concept of “breaking news””
Narrative
Judgment call
“newsworthy”
Broadcast Media
Amplify
Niche Media
Twitter
Fill in Context
Twitter
Event “news gathering”
happens
Friday, April 12, 2013