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Here's a start. It's a simple ruby app that runs on heroku and proxies your twitter account, dropping uninteresting things. Extremely raw code.

http://github.com/fizx/sometweets

http://sometweets.heroku.com/

Filter by account, then, instead of by post? With a sample body of, say, the ten or twenty of an account's most recent posts.

The article's whole premise was that tweet quality does not correlate well within an account; e.g., some marvelous twitter streams include breakfast tweets.

As I said, I'm fine with a filter that has poor accuracy, as long as it makes twitter marginally better.

Dont many classifiers pick the most interesting n words and only use those to decide? Where n is something like 15.

They usually have a lot more than 15 words to choose from, though.

yeah, but I'm not sure it would make that much of a difference. I should throw together a classifier and see.