They will then monitor the page views and edits to these books to see how popular they become and how heavily they are edited, compared with human-generated books.
A source familiar with the matter said Facebook plans to monitor the pages highlighted by Change.org and may take them down if they violate the site's policies.
Most Wikipedia administrators, the people who monitor the pages, are volunteers, and Wikipedia largely relies on users to alert them to "vandalism". A few hours after Wikipedia staff removed the student's first threat, he had posted a second.
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.
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.
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.
"While the ACLU should be focusing on much more important activities than monitoring the governor's Facebook page, we appreciated them identifying a handful of individuals — out of the over 1 million weekly viewers of the page — that may have been inadvertently denied access," said Amelia Chasse, a Hogan spokeswoman.
