Molecularist

Just heard about a new feature in Twitter that lets you ignore the noise and get alerted to the signal, albeit a signal you choose.

In my ramble on noise, this is the kind of thing I was thinking about, but this is the current digital version of it, whereby you still need to specify the filter, so nothing new there.

Alas, the signal comes in the usual form – a Twitter message. I wonder how that could come a different way.

Also, if everyone understood that their Twitter streams were being watched, how long before folks modified how they ‘tagged’ their twits to be caught by these filters (ugh, maybe even causing signal spam)?

It’d be interesting to get some stats on this after a while.

Link: [hat tip, alexdc] Twitter Blog: Tracking Twitter:

You can create as many of these as you want, so send “track drinking tea”, “track iphone”, “track walking san francisco” and you’ll receive matches for all. Want to get a list of what you’re currently tracking? Send “track” alone (or “stats”). Turn them all off by sending “track off”.