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Dear [deity],

Please have someone make a noise-filtering system!




What would be left?

While some of the aggregate information that can be gleaned form twitter is interesting, I have yet to see anything approaching a single meaningful message.

I know that many people seem to like twitter, but every time I go to the twitter website I leave without experiencing anything interesting. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.


Maybe I'm doing it wrong

I use Twitter extensively, but I can't say I've gone to the actual Twitter website more than a dozen times. I think the most interesting uses of Twitter involve using Twitter data in other places, like putting a stream on your blog. I think that's where the future of Twitter is. I saw a cool Twitter/Flickr mashup a while back that took a Twitter stream and translated it into pictures, which was cool.


We are on it; http://thecadmus.com.


Hey jayair,

Cool service - I just tried it out on my account. I'm not really sure if I see a huge increase in relevance, although that might be because I follow a lot of random accounts vs. people I actually know. Feedback: I don't like that it's a blackbox and I can't scale/finetune things to adjust the filter. What gets filtered out should be transparent if you want people to rely on that service.


Me is the best noise-filtering system for me that I have seen.

Also you have to define noise, and why are you getting it anyway?




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