Palo Alto Researchers Create Tool for Dealing with Twitter's "Information Overload"

The application, called “Eddi,” automatically groups tweets for you into topics mentioned either explicitly or, unlike most Twitter clients that also provide topic browsing, implicitly. The end result is a Twitter app you can use to quickly find the popular discussions within your own personal Twitter stream, either by search, tag cloud, timeline or category list. It even suggests tweets you might be interested in reading, helping you sort the signal from the noise.

I need this! Thanks to my colleague Emile for bringing this to my attention. And now I shall call my lawyers!