Twitter introduces new notification settings and a tweet quality filter

There are many complaints levelled at Twitter, but two crop up time and time again. The first is that if you follow a lot of people, you're likely to be overwhelmed with notifications; the second is that there's just too much crap out there. Twitter is introducing a couple of changes to address both of these problems with an update that's rolling out today. Arguably the more interesting of the two is the "quality filter setting". The filter is a feature that Twitter says has been in testing for some time, but is now ready to roll out to everyone.… [Continue Reading]