Rate my startup: KeyTweet, a Twitter client that learns what you like (opens in new tab)

I don't understand what this means on the frontpage: "We find the keywords distinct to who you follow"

On the feed page, "Why am I seeing this?" shows this: "How keytweet works: When you click like or retweet. We try display tweets with similar content. If you don't rate or retweet. We build a list of popular topics in your feed. We then try to match tweets from your feed to those topics. The # on the left side is how relevent we feel that tweet is to you. Enjoy!"

It's confusing.

So my advice is for you to have somebody review all your copy.

edit: my comment might sound very dry, so let me add this: I think it's a good idea if done well, though I follow a small enough number of people that I might not need it yet.

Your decision to focus on links is, I believe, right on. Because you're not trying to replace my twitter stream with your useless predictions, but you're trying to help me notice the most important links, I think this could work.

However, you're doing something wrong with your encoding. You seem to strip out the Icelandic characters from the stream. (A very common pitfall amongst english-speaking developers.)

ps. You need a designer.

I suggest taking somebody with a huge number of followers and running your algorithm on their stream and then showing how your tech works.

Request: Would it also make sense so that I can see the last tweet from everyone on my list or does something like that already exist? It's not really 'key tweet' at that point though.

ps. I don't mind and appreciate the simplicity of the design. I didn't read the copy though.

EDIT: It appears philtro was acquired back in 2009. He may not be able to speak freely about the service because of it, but that does certainly help validate your market.