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Too Much Noise On Twitter? Filttr Will Tell You What’s Worth Reading

Source: TechCrunch

Jan 28, 2009

Summary

Twitter is a great resource for information, useful links, breaking news and status messages from your friends or companies you’re interested in. But if you’re following a lot of streams, it’s not easy to weed out what’s important or relevant to you from the waterfall of short messages that you’re continuously being bombarded with.

Enter just-out-of-closed-beta Filttr, a new project from a department of web hosting company Racked Hosting, that aims to enhance your Twitter experience with a client that automatically filters content from your followers using an algorithm dubbed FLAI (Filttr Artificial Intelligence) and offers a slew of additional features which might also come in handy.

When you sign up for the service (and yes, you need to enter your Twitter credentials so that’s up to you), Filttr will analyze any data it can find based on your account settings and history in order to determine what you’re most interested in. Once the analysis is done, you’ll be presented with a timeline on a web-based or Adobe AIR powered desktop application (there’s even full

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Comments (8)

Nigelwalsh,

Jan 29, 2009

looks interesting - although if I had to run a slider and I was Brogan, Gray Or Scoble that 30k sliders! to filter noise. TweetDeck does this very well with groups...

Spuds,

Jan 29, 2009

Less noise if they got rid off all the spammers

Nigel,

Jan 29, 2009

I find TweetDeck does the job for me.

Naidle,

Jan 30, 2009

@Nigel Yup agreed. Now if there was a service that allowed me to filter messages based on characteristics, ie. only messages with links then I'd be even happier!