We’ve been keeping a secret.  One that is truely awesome, and since the quiet testing period is now over, I wanted to post a quick blurb about it.  Twitturly now has User Profiles!

Now, you can click on any Twitter users username throughout our site and it will take you to their Twitturly profile.  The Twitturly Profile will show all links that that user has tweeted about on Twitter.  It sounds insanely simple, but it offers some sweet opportunities to find individuals that have similar preferences to you.

Want to see an example, check out mine.  You can substitute my Twitter username in that URL with yours to see the links that you posted.

We will be expanding on the “profile” feature quite extensively in the coming months, so stay tuned.

I do want to note one thing, some twitter accounts are missing some of the URLs that they tweeted about.  We are working on stabilizing the way that we get data from Twitter since some data is missed at times.

Thank you for using Twitturly.  If you have any suggestions to make Twitturly better, feel free to tell us on Twitter (@jstrellner, @twitturly) or email us at “ideas - at - twitturly dot com”.

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.