I'm a little late responding to this, but wanted to let you know that we just recently released a product http://tidytweet.com to solve the problem of unwanted tweets showing up in a search feed embedded on a site. Basically, you set up your feed with TidyTweet, and we give you a filtered ATOM feed that matches the format of the Twitter Search ATOM feed.
We include a basic inappropriate language filter to catch the most common curse words and sexual content, but as others have said, that's a difficult problem to solve. So, in addition, we added the ability to moderate which tweets are live along with numerous other options. We're still in private beta, so if you sign-up shoot me a direct message at @TidyTweet and I'll make sure you get approved. Thanks. Michael Paladino http://tidytweet.com http://twitter.com/tidytweet -----Original Message----- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of lukeMV Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 10:34 AM To: Twitter Development Talk Subject: [twitter-dev] Filter Profanity I have a few questions: I am using API to publish my search query onto a web page. Because the web site is a public site, I don't want profanity. I found that I can eliminate certain words with the "-"... but I also found that my API stops working if I have too many queries... is there a simple query that will block variations of a word. For example: -duck (I want to block "duck") is there something I can type (for example -{duck}) that blocks: ducker, ducking, duckeroo, unduckingbelieveable etc? Thanks!!!!
