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by danw 6110 days ago
This reminds me of something Russell Davies spoke about at dConstruct. To paraphrase, TweetDeck is humans solving problems humans have created for themselves.
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Communication isn't a human invention.
Twitter is a human invention. Written communication (arguably) is a human invention.

Audio from the talk will be available on http://2009.dconstruct.org/podcast/ soon.

Tweetdeck also filters Facebook, and others soon too, I'd bet. Given enough time, it would work with your email / chats / voicemail / smoke signals etc.

Filtering information is not a new idea at all.