It has been an interesting week if you are following news about Twitter. After their launch of lists, most people probably figured that Twitter would get fairly quiet for a while. Well, it sounds like this is a different kind of Twitter team. Instead of waiting for a week or a month to go by, Twitter has let some other new items out of the bag.

First, to compliment their lists launch, they give us the List Widget. This widget allows you to embed the tweets of a list on your website. By itself, this is not major news, but we have not seen a new widget for a while.

Also this week, we got a small taste of trend curation. Twitter announced that they are finally going to do something about the trending topics:

we’re starting to experiment with improvements to trends that will help you find more relevant tweets. Specifically, we’re working to show higher quality results for trend queries by returning tweets that are more useful.

This is interesting because it shows another step in the fight against spam. However, there is also no mention of whether what they are doing