Those who rewrite histories with delusions of grandeur and intentions of malice are doomed to be rewritten out in subsequent revisions.

The events at Egypt have turned my social media timelines into a fire-hose. In earlier days, no, make that into when-we-were-young days, we'd have to wait for a while to get analysis of similar events. These days it has become much easier to access but much harder to parse because of the overload.

Which brings me to this thought of being able to manipulate the timeline to read what I want. The basic principle is to apply a set of pre-determined ranking or, scoring to each tweet from a contact about a specific topic/trend/keyword. Thereafter, set a floor in order to display tweets only above that score. And, 'mute' the rest.

It could, perhaps, be linked with the Klout.com score and hence the basic criteria could be "display tweeters with a Klout score above xx tweeting about #trend".

The other option of course is to just get off twitter ;)

Yesterday I had a tweet about this article (or, post). The fun bit was the phrase "ex-RBI employee for 7 years" which now seems to be replaced by "who has been an ex-RBI employee who has worked with them for 7 years". This is even more confusing.

This is a somewhat common mistake around status and a descriptor. An employee is a status and, an ex-employee is a descriptor. So, you cannot be an ex-employee for 7 years :) You can, however, be an "employed with <insert organization> 7 years ago".

Take another example - you cannot be an ex-student for 4 years. You are either a student or, an ex-student. Or, were a student at the said institute 4 years ago.

Niceness ehh ?