I just wanted to write a quick post to publicly ponder the question, why does it seem that Twitturly is the only site of our kind that realized that if you are monitoring the twitter public time line that you would need to include spam filtering and learning techniques?

Lately twitter has been getting a ton of press and is gaining in popularity among the average Internet users quite quickly. As such, the spammers have already determined that they could spam twitter users and get people to their site - which frankly, sucks.

Twitter is a service for getting tweets out, not for spam prevention. It would be nice of them to be able to determine if a message was spam and not let it hit the public timeline, but they have far more important things to do that add that capability to their systems.

I won’t name any names, but sadly, in the past few days, most of the services that are similar to twitturly have suffered from these spammers. Often times, retweeting the original spam message and making it even worse.

So I ask this question to anyone building anything off of twitter, if you haven’t built in your own spam filtering services for twitter that your service can use to prevent abuse of it, then why not?

Feel free to answer in the comments below.

Here is something quick that I threw together regarding the new design. It is my first one so I apologize about the quality. And you’ll need to turn up you volume because it is a lot lower than I thought it was when i created it. Sorry in advance.

So without further ado, here you go:

Today, May 9th the guys over at the Mashup Awards awarded Twitturly with a “Mashup of the Day” award.

We’d like to say thanks for giving Twitturly this award! We are truly honored.

I am not quite sure how well this will turn out, but I have decided to go ahead and setup a blog for Twitturly.

Each time that we do something interesting that we feel we should all of the Twitturly users know about, I, or in the future, someone else will post about it to let you guys know.  Don’t worry, if you are following us on Twitter, we will probably post it there too.

I also intend on occasionally posting little tidbits of information that we gather from our service, like did you know that in the last 24 hours, over 46,000 unique expanded URLs were posted to Twitter?  And for those roughly 46,000 URLs, there were over 60,000 tweets?

So, I hope that you enjoy reading it as much as I hope I enjoy doing the Official Twitturly Blog! ;-)