But trolls are repeat offenders, and it took Mr. Willner and his colleagues nearly 10 days of monitoring the page around the clock to take down over 7,000 profiles that kept surfacing to attack the Spirit Day event page.
They monitor the Facebook pages and Twitter accounts of dozens of J-RIP teenagers from computers inside a precinct station house in East Harlem.
The Delhi Traffic Police now have a dedicated team of four officers who monitor the Facebook page around the clock, Mr. Garg said.
The firm employs an in-house team of social media agents who monitor the Facebook page continuously and respond to every post from customers.
It's clear that the the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection monitors the Facebook pages of refugee advocates, as revealed by the department's head, Michael Pelluzzo, to Senate estimates.
But for all the smoke, there was little fire of reaction, according to a study conducted by comScore, a research firm that monitors the Web pages viewed by more than a million Internet users.
Detectives spend hours, day and night, monitoring the Facebook pages and Twitter accounts of teenagers in the program, known as the Juvenile Robbery Intervention Program, or J-RIP, and of their criminal associates.
It's the bitter and the sweet, you know?" In 2011, the NYPD began utilizing a similar approach by forming a social media team dedicated to monitoring the Facebook pages of notable gang members known to use the social networking site to insult rivals and boast of crimes.
For backup, we were also monitoring the Breaking News Network paging system, which has people monitoring scanners as we were and pumping out bulletins of seemingly newsworthy items to subscribers.
So, the thinking goes, monitor the edits on the Wikipedia pages of the 2012 vice-presidential hopefuls and — voilà — we will discover Mr. Romney's choice.
