#“I need self-curated news for the Irish General Election #ge11”
So I'm lashing together a quick General Election list on Twitter for my Dad to follow. He's not on Twitter but he loves politics and I think he'd get a kick out of it. I started with some of the obvious MSM accounts and then some peopleI know who are interested in politics. Then I looked at some of their lists. I've put a simple one together that I think he'll like. It's nowhere near finished yet but it's a start.
Except of course it has a huge problem. It shows everything those people are tweeting. Every inanity, every irrelevant detail. What I need is the intersection of that list and the #ge11 hashtag. There is no way I wouldrecommendhe follows the hashtag if he wants to keep his sanity. 50,000 people all bitching about the same thing at the same time is not interesting to anyone.
So does such a webapp or desktop app exist? If not, why not? It's another Twitter app I would pay for.
And if it could pull in Wall updates from Facebook Pages of politicians etc, that would be worth even more!
Am I the only one on Twitter who needs these kind of tools (like all my Filter requests) or is the perception that the money lies elsewhere?