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US Secret Service Wants To Identify Snark

Posted by Unknown on from the bound-for-success dept.

beschra (1424727) writes "From the article: '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. "We are not currently aware of any automated technology that could do that (detect sarcasm). No one is considered a leader in that,'" Jamie Martin, a data acquisition engineer at Sioux Falls, SD based Bright Planet, told CBS News.'

Why not just force Twitter to change TOS to require sarcasm tag?"

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  1. Yeah, right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    that's gonna work

  2. Re:Yeah, right. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not exactly sure how you've come to this conclusion, this is actually going to be pretty hard to do, especially because detecting sarcasm in other people is pretty inexact.

  3. Re:ppfffftt. by hey! · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, you want the dismissive banter department. This is sarcasm.

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  4. Re:Yeah, right. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Woosh.

    oh wait, unless *you* were being sarcastic.