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Twitter's garbage problem

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Re: Twitter's garbage problem

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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.

Re: Twitter's garbage problem

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post #30

I've never met the author of the article, but I assume he's the type of person who is bothered when his Reader unread tally switches over to the plus mark. I mean, honestly, tweets are 140 characters or less. The average tweet takes a handful of seconds to read. Is my time so important that I can't spend a few minutes of my day learning what my friends thought was important to share with me? Must I tailor their inter…

If you are looking for harbingers and early insights they typically have a weak signal, so you have to sift through quite a lot of content / message traffic to find them.

Your use case is fine, it's just not the author's.

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