I think this goes well with the whining story posted a couple months ago about how the higher ups at twitter weren't using the service right, by which, they wer

I think this goes well with the whining story posted a couple months ago about how the higher ups at twitter weren't using the service right, by which, they weren't using the service as useless "social media expert" follower whores want to use it. One of the problems I've had to address in developing a social media analysis product is figuring out whose tweets get read by humans, and which ones are just followed by other bots. It's hard to approximate without access to lots of data which isn't available over the API. On the other hand, it will be easy for twitter to figure this out. A few days ago, some users stopped showing up in search results. Are they starting to tighten the noose around spammers? The beauty of twitter is that I've already whitelisted those who I want to hear from. It can completely eliminate the spam problem with email.