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Profiles of different sorts of users of Talking Point Tracker, to help us consider how well we're meeting folks' needs.
A primary assumption is that all these people are fact checkers who want to keep an eye on the zeitgeist of television coverage to find popular topics or claims to check. Of course, anyone else who wants to know what's being talked about can use it, but fact checkers will form our primary use case.
Amy wants to scoop other fact-checkers. She keeps TPT open on a second screen at her desk, collecting and refreshing info. She glances at it several times per hour to see what entities are dominating the day's coverage. If something strikes her as interesting or anomalous, she wants to drill in quickly to determine if it deserves attention. Immediacy and quick context-gathering is important.
Bill is writing about a congressman who's under particular scrutiny today. With so much attention on him already, Bill's looking for a fresh angle. He uses TPT's Related Terms to surface entities that are evidently getting mentioned alongside the congressman, but perhaps haven't been fully explored by other fact-checkers. Exploratory network tools are most important to him.
Kingsley is a fact checker who wants to make good decisions about what phrases to spend time researching and fact checking. He is less interested in scoops or breaking news, and more focused on impact: what are people talking about? What questions should people who watched the news last night be asking? It's his job to help get them answers and hold pundits accountable. He uses TPT to get a sense of the most salient talking points from the night before. What topics were discussed? What claims were made? He is probably interested in prime time slots more than the midnight hours.
MasterChef69 is a games-person who thinks mainly in glowing orbs and controller button sequences. They appreciate that words fall from the top of the window as the words are said and that they can shoot the words and sound effects make a rhythm when they do.
Quincé Pickerson is tired. More tired than she has ever been in her entire life and it is unclear why. She got a normal amount of sleep, ate a normal breakfast, and got to work at a normal time. Nevertheless she has a job to do and she is nothing if not a professional. Quincé flicks her wrist to boots up BraniOS, sighs deeply, and enters the simulation.
The blur fades from her eyes; she is sitting at a desk, her hands are now resting on an ancient keyboard and mouse. Her gaze scans the newsroom, past the shadowy static figures over to the clock on the wall -- 12:59 PM, January 12, 2019 just like always. As the clock ticks to the top of the hour Quincé opens a new tab and watches the words stream in the Talking Point Tracker. She activates her recording implant, processes the output, and after a few moments the world fades back to the colorful pastilles that define 2499 deco.
Quincé is part of the time traveling division of Seventh Earth Government, and it is her job to figure out exactly what universe her now-ex-partner escaped to with the plans for the Jorgon Star. She uses the frequency graphs of TPT in order to generate seed signatures and catalogue the multiverse. Every universe has a slightly different term histogram, and the seed collapses at the same time in 2019.