Twitter is an oddball. The very things that make it great—everyone’s in one big public water cooler, you can reach out to anyone just by @mentioning them, accounts can be anonymous—are what lead to its abuse and spam problems.
It’s hard for Twitter to crack down too hard without changing the very nature of the site.
To this end, they’ve introduced ways for people to take more control over who and what they see. You can mute accounts, specific words, or even just retweets.They’ve also added a Quality Filter to your notifications, which is on by default. I’m always wary of a service taking filtering into it’s own hands (like Facebook’s two hidden inboxes), so I decided to find out what it actually does. Here’s what I learned.
How the Quality Filter Works
Twitter’s support page explains that the Quality Filter “filters low-quality content from your notifications”. The examples Twitter gives are duplicate Tweets or automated content. This means that if an account is sending you the same message over and over again, sending the same message to dozens of accounts, or failing some unspecified robot test of Twitter’s, it…
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