>A first approach is to simply filter out tweets by keyword. I think of this as anti-search: specify a keyword, and never see any updates containing that word.

>A first approach is to simply filter out tweets by keyword. I think of this as anti-search: specify a keyword, and never see any updates containing that word. >Keyword filtering alone could probably solve 1/3 of the Twitter garbage problem This sounds like an old problem, reiterated to me, with working solutions: [kill files](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file) in news reader programs, especially [score files](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Score_file http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Score_file).