8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the social network analysis processing comprises: determining influence of each of the authors within the one or more social networks of related authors of online social media and their corresponding posts; ranking the influence of each of the authors to ascertain most influential authors for the category; and compiling a list of the most influential authors for the category sorted by influence.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the social network analysis processing comprises: determining influence of each of the authors within the one or more social networks of related authors of online social media and their corresponding posts; ranking the influence of each of the authors to ascertain most influential authors for the category; and compiling a list of the most influential authors for the category sorted by influence. 9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the influence of each of the online social media authors is determined by: calculating a centrality value for each author using a betweenness centrality algorithm on the raw data stored in the database for each of the websites of interest, the centrality value to indicate a degree of influence of the author in the one or more social networks; and calculating an influence score for each author based on the centrality value of the author to determine the influence of each of the authors within the one or more social networks of related authors of online social media and their corresponding posts.