Clean Tweets is a Firefox Toolbar Addon that essentially cleans up Twitter search, specifically Trending Topics. Anyone who is a frequent user of Twitter Search knows that there are a lot of people (and the number grows every day) that SPAM the trending topics with anything from "Get Rich Quick Schemes" to affiliate links and even people that blatantly ask for more followers. It is annoying, waters down and makes Twitter search and Trends less useful.There are times when I view a trending topic and 90% are spam or worthless tweets. I have to dig down 3 pages deep just to see what the source is for the topic to be trending. Twitter is growing at an alarming rate and as cool as that is for all of us that love it and use it, it also means more opportunity for spammers. So we built Clean Tweets to combat Twitter Search spam and hopefully eliminate Trending topic Spam almost completely.
Here is how Clean Tweets works:
Clean Tweets does various actions when you use Twitter Search at either Search.twitter.com or when you access search from within your web based profile.
It automatically deletes any tweets from accounts that are less than 24hrs old (or how long you specify). A lot of search spam comes from churn and burn accounts that spam until they get flagged so doing this cuts down on a lot of spam. (don't worry legit newcomers you can show up tomorrow).
Anyone tweet that mentions 3 or more (or what you decide) trending topics in it will not show up. Most spammers also list every trending topic they can find after their little spammy speal so this is a good way to cut down automatically as well.
Manual Delete Option. For the spammers that sqeak by or just list one trend at a time you can click an X by their avatar and it will delete their tweet and remove them from ever showing up again. (don't worry if you accidently delete your friend you can get them back in your settings)
It is pretty simple but in the days we have been testing it, it is very effective and cuts down on a lot of spam. The best part is it doesn't slow search, or change anything, it is like the spam was never there.
