Patent ID: 8639767

Claim:
A system for generating geofeed-based alerts, the system comprising: one or more processors programmed by one or more computer program instructions to: obtain an alert parameter that specifies a trend alert condition related to content that is aggregated from a plurality of social media content providers, wherein the trend alert condition when satisfied causes an alert to be generated, wherein the content is related to one or more geographically definable locations that is formatted individually for the plurality of social media content providers; monitor at a plurality of times the content that is aggregated from the plurality of social media content providers; determine that a first volume of the content was available at a first time, a second volume of the content greater than the first volume was available at a second time after the first time, and a third volume of the content greater than the first volume was available at a third time after the second time based on the monitoring; determine that the trend alert condition has been satisfied based on the determination that the first volume of the content was available at the first time, the second volume of the content greater than the first volume was available at the second time after the first time, and the third volume of the content greater than the first volume was available at the third time after the second time; generate a geofeed-based alert based on the determination; and communicate a notification that includes the geofeed-based alert.