DFW/Boulder based Swarmforce recently launched an awesome twitter application called Swattr. The main function of Swattr is to "kill the noise on Twitter." The application uses Swarmforce's highly advanced swarm intelligence algorithm, along with something called swarm karma, to display the best tweets in any given swarm (or category). Right now, there are 23 active swarms that users can participate in. Swatter users can also create swarms. So how does Swatter work? You'll recognize the interface immediately, as it borrows liberally from the Twitter website itself: You got your status update box, your tweetstream, and your sidebar navigation. You can see the swarms you belong to, the tweestream for each swarm, a summary of the best tweets from each swarm, your groups and their tweetstreams, and all the standard twitter stuff like @replies, dms and favortites. The crux of using Swattr hinges on people sending tweets "into the swarm" via the Add to Swarm button Adding a tweet to a swarm increases your swarm karma as well as allows others to vote the tweet up or down. While Swarmforce CEO Jason Jones says the app is really in an alpha stage, I have to say it does the job pretty well. The best part of Swattr, which I only discovered today, is the Summary Tab. The summary tab shows you the top tweets over the past 24 hours for each swarm that you belong to. What's cool about this is that it actually works, and the summary shows me some great tweets that I could have otherwise missed from my huge tweetstream. For example, here is my summary for the Technology Swarm:

After talking a little with Jason today about Swattr, I'm really excited to see the app grow and evolve as they release new features they have in the pipe. As it matures, I think Swattr will become the default method for the way I interact with Twitter.