I’m tired of checking the profile of everyone that follows me on Twitter to decide whether to follow them back. At the same time, I don’t want to follow everyone, or I’ll add spammers, and I do want to know what most of the people that follow me have to say.

I created Follow Ham this morning to solve that problem. It looks up who’s following you that you’re not following back, computes a “spamminess” score for each of those people, then recommends which you should follow and which you should block. Check it out and let me know if you run into any problems — consider it in beta status with only me having used it so far.

If you’re interested in the machine learning techniques behind the spam classification, read the About Follow Ham page.