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> on another note, police do go through social media feeds manually. They even have dedicated tools for it like this one https://www.hunch.ly/

Yes. I put in a bid with a company that was building one for ISIS Twitter accounts a long, long time back, when that kind of thing didn't make me projectile-vomit immediately. Then there's this company down in Orange County that uses Elixir to do automatic transcription and keyword search of phone calls made from prison: https://leotechnologies.com/careers/ . There are a million like this.

> Think about the average case police deal with.

Regular cops and the Secret Service are very different.

> I fail to see why there would be any need to waste resources contacting and waiting for facebook in a case like that.

Sure, that's local cops, though. They are investigating different things than the Secret Service and for different reasons and with different staff. The FBI is closer to local law enforcement than the Secret Service, but the FBI has a direct pipe, they just ask and receive.