10. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving social media data from a plurality of remote data sources, the received social media data being associated with a plurality of topics; analyzing the received social media data to identify a trending hot topic, the trending hot topic being at least one of a topic rising in citations and a topic rising in use; comparing the trending hot topic with a database of topical terms, the database of topical terms including terms relevant to a predetermined topic associated with a particular topic of interest and wherein the topical terms in the database of topical terms are derived from data in a content database; determining that the trending hot topic is relevant to the predetermined topic; querying the content database using the trending hot topic to identify a caption to be associated with the trending hot topic; appending the caption to the trending hot topic, the appended caption providing an indication of context for the trending hot topic; and storing the trending hot topic and the caption in a database.
10. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving social media data from a plurality of remote data sources, the received social media data being associated with a plurality of topics; analyzing the received social media data to identify a trending hot topic, the trending hot topic being at least one of a topic rising in citations and a topic rising in use; comparing the trending hot topic with a database of topical terms, the database of topical terms including terms relevant to a predetermined topic associated with a particular topic of interest and wherein the topical terms in the database of topical terms are derived from data in a content database; determining that the trending hot topic is relevant to the predetermined topic; querying the content database using the trending hot topic to identify a caption to be associated with the trending hot topic; appending the caption to the trending hot topic, the appended caption providing an indication of context for the trending hot topic; and storing the trending hot topic and the caption in a database. 13. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 , further comprising: transmitting a notification of the trending hot topic and the caption to a user device.