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"How To Scan Thousands of Tweets Without Tears"

This post was written by Tara Calisham: "Over the weekend I wrote a post about Twitter and cruft. While I love Twitter, I hated the cruft that I had to wade through when trying to follow Twitter lists for information.

After I wrote the post I found a JavaScript solution and included that in my writeup. I also heard from Hanan Cohen, who's put together his own PHP solution. But the problem was really bothering me, so I spent this past weekend trying to figure out a way to get a single overview of the several Twitter lists I follow, with as much cruft removed as possible, so that I can easily scan through it and find the good stuff. And I think I've made a good start on a solution. Here's what I did:

1) First, I ListiMonkey'd...

2) Next, I TextPipe'd...

3) Then, I TEA'd...

4) At this Point, I Converted...

5) Finally, I Firefox'd...

Going through these steps is going to let me review a lot of content from a lot of lists and save me a tremendous amount of time.

A few additional thoughts...

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Source: Research Buzz, 7 April 2010. © 2006-2010 ResearchBuzz, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on April 08, 2010 (boomark / email).