Clean Tweets is a Firefox add-on that helps strip possible spammer results when you are searching trends or anything else in Twitter search.  it has a few options to strip down the search results to help you get to the good information faster. It can delete any tweet that is from an account less that 24 hours old It can remove any tweet that has one person mentioning 3 or more (you decide) trending topics in tweets Manual deletion From my test... 

*Update: it seems that comparegoogle.com has stopped working, but you can also check out a similar service called www.comparecaffeine.com .  Read More →

Tffratio pokes fun and tries to analyze what type of person/account you are based on the ratio between followers and whom you follow.  There seems to be 4 types of people, but I won’t spoil the reading by telling you up front.  Read More →

When you start typing a search on Google, if you have auto-complete enabled, it will start to recommend different queries based on what you’re typing. So, for example, if you write “George,” it will suggest George Washington, George Bush, and George Clooney, among others well-known George’s. However, if you’re using Google to try and figure out what exactly Twitter is, the results are a bit suspect.  Read More →