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I would pay for a good twitter app which helps me actually read stuff. There's so much of noise on twitter that if there was a way to filter that out, it would really be nice.

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Can you elaborate, based on what criteria?

For example: Only famous people? only students? only phds? Content? Only people with blogs?

Or maybe a better dashboard abstraction that can have conversations between people be easier to digest?

Right now I use tweetdeck which allows me to see everything as columns. So I can have a column for my timeline, column for hashtags etc.. But the problem is things like - http://askaaronlee.com/how-many-times-do-you-tweet-your-blog.... The notorious ones are inc.com, fast company or mashable which seem to repeat the same post 4-5 times a day. Plus with tools like Buffer, you can schedule those tweets to be made multiple times. What would be nice is a tool to fight back - say keep track of Duplicates and ignore them.

Hmm, that does seem like an interesting idea. I didn't think about that problem but you are indeed right. Twitter is full of re-tweets of continually the same blog post spam. I think some kind of service to monitor twitter and filter out that would improve readability.

Cross platform, knows what you have seen already on any device.

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