The Federal Reserve Bank of New York wants to know what you are Tweeting, Facebooking and YouTubing. Apparently, a simple Google search for posts about the Fed doesn’t suffice, as the bank has issued a request for proposal soliciting the creation of a “Sentiment Analysis And Social Media Monitoring Solution,” which would allow it to gather all of the comments posted about it online and distinguish between positive and negative commentary.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=106499