OK Here’s the latest version. No I haven’t been resting for the last few days, I’ve been working on two interesting bit of functionality.

The first one is mostly happens at our servers, but only effects you. For the last few months I’ve had a nifty little cron job (a program that runs ever so often with out me having to tell it to every time) pulling in tweets from the public time line and then adding the senders, and a stripped down profile to a database

It’s simply taken the users bio, their last tweet, removed common words (like “a” and “the”etc) as well as duplicated words and stored them.

It wasn’t until I started looking at the results (running queries over the profile information) I saw just how much SPAM there is on twitter.

If I’m going to use this information to build a list of who people should follow I need to take steps to clean that dataset up. They have

So I looked around and found chirpio, they have a lovely little API for getting the user generated grade of any twitter user. Which hopefully will reduce the amount of spamers that get posted on the newly (new with this incarnation) suggested followers part of TwitterBrite.

Yes that right you can now get a nice list of users who you can follow and who’s interests match yours. And whats more, I will shortly (after Version 1 of TwitterBrite is done) be publishing a set of API’s for you to search the database as well as to allow you to add yourself to it (and of course remove yourself from it should you wish to).

Which leaves me the final chunk of news. I’ve amended TwitterBrite so that when you click on one of the button that are linked to tweets in your time line, the pop-up retweet, reply, userprofile etc boxes do not appear in the main timeline window, but in their own window, it look a whole host better, and also makes sense.

TwitterBrite TR1 (well it’s really TR3 I guess) can be located here.