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Re:Twitter Needs a Spam Filter? No, We Need a Marketer Filter by akkartik on Friday July 03, 2009 @01:33PM (#686351)
If you want to follow many people you can't follow people who post frequently.

I think that's reasonable; surely professional tweets can be restricted to a dozen a day.

If twitter makes it possible to prioritize tweets that will change. But as long as everything is time-ordered, high-frequency tweeters interfere with my ability to follow high-priority tweeters.

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Re:Twitter Needs a Spam Filter? No, We Need a Marketer Filter by johns on Friday July 03, 2009 @11:37PM (#686867)
No. If you want to follow many people you can't follow people who post frequently. I happen to be able to (TweetDeck helps a lot). It's a tooling problem, not a service problem.
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Re:Twitter Needs a Spam Filter? No, We Need a Marketer Filter by eli on Saturday July 04, 2009 @12:26PM (#687257)
Isn't it relevant that you need to use third-party tools to make Twitter usable? The concept of Twitter may live on, but I think we're all just waiting for a better implementation.

Heck, they had to buy another company just to provide search for their own data!

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Re:Twitter Needs a Spam Filter? No, We Need a Marketer Filter by johns on Sunday July 05, 2009 @08:34AM (#688171)
If you start looking at Twitter like a utility, relying on tooling makes a lot more sense.
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Re:Twitter Needs a Spam Filter? No, We Need a Marketer Filter by onreact-com on Friday July 03, 2009 @05:21PM (#686637)
Using the Power Twitter FF extension you can choose your favorite friends who get an extra menu item so that you don't miss anything.
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