13. The computer-implemented system of claim 11 , further comprising means for listing an identity of one or more message originators based on their influence on the messages being analyzed.
11. A computer-implemented system comprising: means for defining a communications channel with one or more key words, wherein the means for defining the communications channel with one or more key words comprises means for specifying one or more key words that are used to extract a message from the message stream, the message stream comprising at least two messages; means for extracting one or more messages from the message stream based on the defined channel, wherein the means for extracting the one or more messages from the message stream based on the defined channel comprises means for filtering one or more messages from the message stream using the defined channel as a filter for selecting a message to be extracted for additional processing; means for removing common words from the one or more extracted messages; means for building a word order graph for the one or more extracted messages, the word order graph tracking sequencing of words found within each extracted message; means for using an algorithm to find commonly occurring word clusters within each extracted message, wherein the algorithm reviews each extracted message for at least two-word clusters with a predetermined pair-frequency, the pair-frequency comprising a number of times that words appear together in an extracted message; means for pruning the word clusters to reduce a total number of word clusters; means for ranking one or more surviving clusters to determine an order of presentation; means for arranging each word cluster into a natural order based on the word order graph; and means for displaying the word clusters as a summary of the message stream.