Eddi Organizes All the Crap On Twitter Into Neat Piles

A clever hack by PARC feeds tweets into a search engine, to extract their subject matter.

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Unless you're already a hopeless Twitter addict, dipping into the service is a headspinning experience. You're supposed to comb through this huge, rambling list of crap? And that's fun?

The solution, of course, would be a system that accurately categorizes tweets, according to topics and what's hot. But so far, nothing has really succeeded in doing so (sure, there's the #hashtag designation that marks...