Twitter is “spam-free” with nearly a million users

My boss likes to point out, whenever he looks at twitter, that it is filled with the most inane and pointless updates.

I don’t necessarily agree with him, but he does have a point.

John Gruber pointed on Daring Fireball today to this post by Russell Beattie:

Think about any other online community system ever created - from Usenet to The WELL, IRC to Slashdot to Digg. All of them have had to deal with the core problem of idiots on the Internet. Slashdot’s extended karma system, or IRCs multiple moderation commands, Digg’s diggs, etc. are all about filtering out the assholes. It’s a fact - anytime a virtual group gets to a certain size, the morons come and start doing their best to disrupt, defraud or degrade the audience.

Twitter, however, has almost a million members, a thriving community, lots of discussions and yet doesn’t have spam or troll issues. If you step back for a second and think about it, that’s pretty amazing.

Yeah, there’s not much spam. This is for the same reason that you don’t find much spam in your RSS reader - why would you subscribe to a spam feed?

But there is a lot of noise.

I like the noise. Some people don’t. What do you think? Too much noise?

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