Patent ID: 8301698

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for providing feedback in a messaging system, the method comprising: sending from the messaging system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs executed by the one or more processors at least a portion of target messages from a plurality of incoming messages to respective users of a plurality of users based at least in part on selection criteria of the respective users; receiving at the messaging system from the respective users feedback data regarding at least one of: one or more target messages received by the respective users and one or more respective authors of the one or more target messages; and processing the feedback data, through execution of the one or more programs, for providing respective feedback results to one or more authors of the one or more respective authors, wherein the respective feedback results for the one or more authors are provided in addition to, and for concurrent display with, messages that are targeted based at least in part on selection criteria of the one or more authors.