WASHINGTON (CBSDC) -- The U.S. Secret Service is seeking software that can identify top influencers and trending sets of social media data, allowing the agency to monitor these streams in real-time - and sift through the sarcasm.A work order posted online Monday shows that the agency desires analytics software that can watch users in real time, collecting a range of data including "emotions of Internet users to old Twitter messages" across multiple languages.
The Secret Service is also seeking software that can complete very succinct tasks within massive sets of continuously flowing social media data, such as locating users and detecting sarcasm.
"Ability to detect sarcasm and false positives," reads the request.
Kay: No, ma'am. We at the [Secret Service] do not have a sense of humor we're aware of.
As an aside, offer a subcontract to use Rantberg as a beta site. Might pay for operations.