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Innovative Mixero Approach

Today Twitter and other social networks see a development boom. The more people join the network, the more connections they make. However, it is a rare case people use the Unfollow function - one just wants to get back to reading later, the other - does not want to offend friends. This results in enormous list of followers, which eventually leads to oversaturation by the friends generated information. Many people admit the problem to be already real (see fig.1).

Figure 1

The basic (and the only one in practice) way to select friends and reduce their amount in twitter stream is to group them. However the Mixero team thinks grouping has another meaning and functions. Groups allow you to define your interest in particular people you follow, in other words - you tag people. Doing this you may easily find that your group Tech Bloggers contains100 favorite ones, but at the moment (now, today, or this month) you want to read only a few of them.

That is why Mixero has not only a grouping feature, but some other innovative functionality solutions resolving the noise reducing problem in easier and more effective way.

ActiveList

The first of these innovations is our ActiveList. ActiveList aggregates information on a number of Mixero System elements (for now User, Group, Channel) which are of interest for you at the moment. Your ActiveList allows watching the timeline only from the elements included in the list, so no bit of important information slips out. Of course Mixero shows easily the timeline from all of your friends, but we think this option will soon (or maybe already is) redundant as it again makes you to waste time on reading the information you are not interested in. The ActiveList is shown below on figure 2.

Figure 2

Contexts

ActiveList focuses your attention on a part of the information stream generated by your followers. However, in the real life this focus is not permanent and changes very often. For example, at work you need to focus on information from your colleagues or professional information channels. In turn, at home you want to leave work issues apart and get the information from your friends or entertainment public feeds. For this very occasion when you need to switch the focus of your attention, Mixero has its innovative Contexts function.

Context is a saved ActiveList with a name. You can easily switch contexts in Mixero at any time.

Thus, in the office or in any other environment you quickly start reading only relevant tweets.

In the future we are going to introduce a Geo-Contexts feature enabling easy switching between contexts based on your location.

See figure 3 for the illustration of Contexts.

Figure 3

Filtering

Many twitter clients this time impement timeline filters to show only tweets with relevant texts. Mixero raises information streams filtering to an absolutely new level, which includes:

• Setting filters for user timeline. Mixero, unlike other Twitter clients, allows you to set both positive (to find the tweets containing the keyword) and negative (for keywords you do not want to be in a tweet) filters.
• Setting filters for group timeline.
• Setting Global Negative Filter where you can indicate keywords to filter out the tweets in which they occur. Using the filter you do away with constant spam about Spymaster or Mafia games which lately filled the Twittersphere.
• Creating the Globally Banned Users list which makes selected users invisible not only in your timelines (the same does the Block function in Twitter), but in channels as well. This list can be used to remove trolls (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29) from Mixero channels.

What is more, the distinctive feature of Mixero filters is that once set in the application, they are available from any computer or mobile device on which you run Mixero.