I don't understand where the machine learning part comes in. Is it just figuring out which reporters report about different topics?
I don't understand where the machine learning part comes in. Is it just figuring out which reporters report about different topics?
To go into slightly more detail, we've train classifiers for each reporter in the system using the articles they've written. Comparing your story against the articles reporters have written in the past few months gives us a very accurate picture of who might write about you and therefore who you should be spending time trying to contact.
I'd love to find a service that shows me who reads or follows what. Also, a service that shows where the viral/press attention happened first and the press hits it received after. I was trying to do my own study last week on this in regards to the forgetify app. What started their press ball rolling? Was it here on Hacker News or Reddit? I wasn't able to scroll through the 1,000s and 1,000s of tweet to find it's first hit.