Twitter - Parts - Filtering
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As a geek, I’m not subject to the normal whims of the populace, which can be annoying when you hang out on Twitter and there’s a flood of tweets about things you don’t care about . Here’s how to filter tweets in the Twitter web interface. To accomplish this, we’re going to use a user script, which means all you Internet Explorer users are pretty much left out in the cold.
Here’s How to Filter Anything from Twitter’s Web Interface - How-To Geek
Genius Idea: Any avid Twitter user can speak to the challenge of information overload. Cadmus is here to help. The service takes your Twitter stream, plucks out the most important tweets and organizes them by relevance.
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The app lets you add services such as Twitter, any RSS feed and FriendFeed, but the API currently focuses purely on Twitter as a source of information including methods to curate posts, trends, comments, links, searches, lists and find related tweets. These API methods all return information from a Twitter user stream identified by a Cadmus API key, or via Twitter authentication , if you want to build an application that can use the API for any user. There are a number of services developed to help you find the most relevant social media posts. They can work in different ways; some define relevance and quality through user voting systems such as Digg, Hacker News and Reddit. Others apply algorithms such as StumbleUpon (combined with user voting) and Pearl Trees (and user organizing stories) and frequently services use a number of methods to try and give their users the most personalized and relevant information.