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Comment by apike | Hacker News Reader

I absolutely agree. This tool doesn't help you increase your signal to noise ratio, which should be the real goal.

That's why I recently built this: http://www.unladenfollow.com/ Unladen Follow suggests people to unfollow based on how noisy they are, not whether they follow you back. It gives you metrics about things like excessive hashtags, links, and so on.

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"This is equivalent to following Robert Scoble 21 times."

Thank you, this made me laugh out loud..

I love this tool. A couple points of feedback. I don't mind @mentions if they're sent to people I'm not following since I don't see them. Also, it would be nice if you included the table headers every 50 rows because I can't remember what each column is once they're out of view. Great tool though!

Hey John, sorry I missed this comment when you first posted it. @mentions are not counted if they are @replies for the reason you suggest. The repetition of table headers is a good idea, though, thanks!

That's really, really awesome.

One idea, add .@ detection. If they ever use .@'s, I'd automatically give them a score of infinity. (Not really, but it sure is annoying and would be a cool thing to factor in)

I considered that - right now they're just penalized as normal @mentions. I'm not sure if

". @steve Going to the grocery store now!"

is much worse than

"Going to the grocery store now, @steve!"

I've also considered extra-penalizing manual "RT @steve", but will wait until all the main clients support it (Tweetie for Mac, for example.)

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