The folks at Twitter today posted up a characteristically short piece about the company's plans to filter the site's Trending Topics. "We've noticed an increasing amount of clutter in the public timeline, especially with trending topics," the company wore in a post on its official blog. "Trends began as a useful way to find out what's going on but has grown less interesting due to the noisiness of the conversation."

Twitter didn't discuss the specifics of its editorial plan, except to say, that it has begun "improvements to trends that will help you find more relevant tweets." According to the company, "The improvement won't be very noticeable at first, but this is a small step toward unearthing more value in search and getting you more relevant results."

http://blog.twitter.com/2009/11/get-to-point-twitter-trends.html