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Re:Twitter Needs a Spam Filter? No, We Need a Marketer Filter by akkartik on Saturday July 04, 2009 @04:34AM (#687027)
You don't care about catching everything, fair enough. But do you care equally about everyone you follow? I contend that you don't. If you sample randomly you bias for those who post often rather than those you care more about.
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Re:Twitter Needs a Spam Filter? No, We Need a Marketer Filter by jamesbritt on Saturday July 04, 2009 @01:10PM (#687292)
"But do you care equally about everyone you follow? "

Of course not. That's not how use Twitter

"If you sample randomly you bias for those who post often rather than those you care more about."

If a random sample routinely has someone posting items of little to no value to me, I follow. So it works out.

The people I really care about I connect with in other ways: phone, E-mail, blogs, conferences and local meetings, and so on.

Twitter is but one of many ways I get my daily data bath. That I miss this or that is not a big deal. Besides, the important stuff tends to get repeated so it usually finds me anyways.

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