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Twitter Cleaning Up Trending Topics Spam

Source: Mashable!

Nov 06, 2009

Summary

While Twitter’s Trending Topics have been an amazing tool for tracking what’s happening not only on Twitter, but in the world in general, they’ve been plagued by spam. The result has been the deterioration of Twitter trends to a point where viewing tweets within trends has simply become a mess.

Twitter knows this is a problem though and has now publicly acknowledged that they’re working on a solution. In an announcement today, the microblogging startup has revealed that they are experimenting with new ways to show higher-quality tweets within Twitter trends.

The change should not be very noticeable at first, and it looks like the experiment is limited to a small group of users. However, the result should be (hopefully) less spam when you search Twitter trends. This reminds us a bit of what Bing is doing with its integration of Twitter Search, although there is no indication that Microsoft is involved.

Here is the full blog post from Twitter spokeswoman Jenna Dawn:

“As Twitter grows and the number of tweets each day continues to astound us, we’ve noticed an in

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