Twitter: Find and follow people of similar interests

Jude Festus    Google, Twitter    

Google recently launched a new experimental service in Google Labs
called Google Follow Finder. This will help you to expand your
Twitter network by suggesting profiles with similar interest.
This came as a boon to me as i was quite frustrated with Twitter's
search features. Finding profiles of your interest in Twitter is
pretty simple with with Google Follow Finder, simply enter your
Twitter account name and you’ll see a list of people you might be
interested in following. You can also get interesting suggestions
by entering other Twitter user names. Here’s what it looks like:

 



If you see someone you want to follow, just click “Follow on

Twitter,” log in, and they’ll be added to your following list in
Twitter. This integration is based on Twitter’s new @anywhere
frameworks, which make it easy for any site to add Twitter
functionality. We’re using the frameworks to provide dynamic
information about Twitter accounts and one-click following.
The lists in Google Follow Finder are generated using public
following and follower lists on Twitter. For example, if you
follow Mattcutt and Google Blof on Twitter, and most people who
follow Mattcutt and Google Blog also tend to follow other important
SEO folks in the industry. So in this case Google follow finder may
suggest other SEO folks as a “Tweep you might like.” The list of
“Tweeps with similar followers” is simply a list of accounts with
similar follower lists to yours.


Happy Tweeting Guys!