Twitter Needs a Spam Filter? No, We Need a Marketer Filter

Re:Twitter Needs a Spam Filter? No, We Need a Marketer Filter by olefoo on Friday July 03, 2009 @12:50PM (#686299)

I think there is some value in a twitter client that filters for you. The canonical example that comes to mind for me is a couple of friends of mine who are sports enthusiasts and when the #redwings begin flying I am less than interested; but they still have worthwhile things to say about topics I am interested in.

I also don't have that much time for twitter, there are a number of people that i follow whom I don't need to know what they had for breakfast, but I would like to know what they thought of a site or idea. That's a harder nut to crack, some sort of adaptive learning filter might work.

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Re:Twitter Needs a Spam Filter? No, We Need a Marketer Filter by rw on Friday July 03, 2009 @01:24PM (#686342)

This could just be solved by etiquette. Or, different accounts for different purposes: one for your minutia/personal life, one for your coding life, one for your politics life...

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Re:Twitter Needs a Spam Filter? No, We Need a Marketer Filter by olefoo on Friday July 03, 2009 @04:11PM (#686545)

There are plenty of folks who do that. And some clients do support that behavior. But the problem with an etiquette based solution is that there is a fair amount of bandwidth consumed by discussions of what is and is not appropriate etiquette.

Client-side filtering does break the implied 'I read your every brainfart' contract that makes twitter appealing to so many, but come on; this just moves the filters a little ways outside your head.

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