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Making Twitter an Information Network

http://graysky.org/2010/11/twitter-information-network/

by freerobby • 16 years ago

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movablemike• 16 years ago

Interesting post! Separating wheat from chaff is important and still unsolved.

jeffmiller• 16 years ago

The filtering approach (taken by Proxlet, for example) is pretty much the only scalable way to raise the signal-to-noise ratio of a Twitter stream. At first it seems hack-y and inelegant, but by using it in the field I've found that it is super effective.

I use a custom filtering script and a long list of regexes I've accumulated over time, expressions like this:

\b#?NFL|NBA|NHL|World Cup|Yankees|Jets|Pats|Redskins|49ers|Steelers|Ravens|Packers|Reds|Phillies|Patriots|\ Seahawks)\b

Another filter that comes in handy is not('http://). Some Twitterers out there share good links, and that's all.

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