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Who Should I Follow – finds new Twitter friends

Who Should I follow (quite the long name) is a sponsored website with one field on the homepage asking for your Twitter id.  The About page shows who made the page but not how it worked.

I entered my name and was welcomed with a simple interface with two cool controls:

  1. A slider for less popular or more popular.  Basically a way to trim down people on the number of followers they have.  While not always the best indicator (look at my count, ugh), a neat way to trim the fat
  2. A slider for location based on where you place yourself.  I list St Louis, so it allows me to say anywhere or closer in range

While neither of these show how close or how many followers the slider represents, it is nice.  Below that was a list of suggestions based upon who else those you follow, well follow.  So the more of your followers that follow that person, the higher in the rankings as a suggestion.

It tells you how many tweets per day, their location, avatar and bio line.  Then a link to follow them, which really just takes you to twitter.com with the link line to add them.  So they get around dealing with authentication to Twitter.

I like the simplicity and the slider but hope they can add a couple minor items.  Their last couple of tweets would be nice to see.  Also the numbers they follow and are followed by to weed out any possible spammers.

To dig deeper, each person allows you to see more like a particular person as a link.  This is a nice touch and works against the person’s profile instead of just the number of in common followers they have.

About IdoNotes

Professional bio: , known as IdoNotes across the web is based in St Louis, MO as the Director of Messaging & Collaboration for Connectria and the Founder of Spiked Studio Productions.. Connectria is one of the largest IBM hosting and remote management partners. Chris speaks globally at conferences and events including: View Admin 2003-2009 View Admin Europe 2003-2008 Domino 7 Upgrade Seminar (globally) Domino 8 Upgrade Seminar (globally) Real-Time Collaboration Seminar Lotusphere 2003-2012 ILUG 2008, 2010 ULUG 2009, 2011, 2012 Collaboration University 2006-2010Domino Optimization Tour 2010 BLUG 2011, 2012 NLLUG 2010 AusLUG 2011, 2012 Other awards, events and information: Founder of IamLUG - the North American Lotus User Group event held annually. 2009-present Chris, via Connectria, is a Lotus Award winner 3 times and a finalist 5 times since 2000. Winner of the Gary Guthrie Award for Technical Writing in 2002 Previous board member of the Previous board member of VALU (the predecessor to LotusUserGroup) Advisory Board member to LotusUserGroup.org Chris is the founder of Spiked Studio Productions which produces industry related podcasts, webcasts and more. Shows include: IdoNotes - one of the longest running Lotus related technical podcasts BlackBerry Today - a video podcast on the hottest device, application and BlackBerry/Playbook news Consultant In Your Pocket - deep technical webcast training delivered free and subscription IdoSphere - a two day online technical event TheSocialGeeks - a leading social media roundtable podcast Sametime Guide - a video training tutorial on installing and administrating IBM Sametime TheSocialNetworker - a social media site review webcast and interview series now including Social Stalking content on social media security and privacy Certifications: PCLP since Domino R4 in administration and in Development through R5 Workplace Collaboration Services 2.5 - Team Collab and Messaging Domino 7 and 8 Certified Security Administrator Sametime Administration 7.5.x-8.5 CLP Collaboration (retired certification Aug 2006) CLI for numerous administration areas including Domino, Sametime, Quickr and Connections Yes I write some of those dreaded admin cert exams you take. I won't say which ones so you don't come looking for me, but I will say they are the real good recent ones that have been coming out. Animals: One dog, a Puggle. He has been on this world before and seems to understand slippers and a fine cigar. Mind you that is him in the chair and not me. A ninja death cat. I only see her when she strikes Music: Non-stop. At my desk, in my car, walking to work and back to my car downtown. In the house there is a crazy zoned set-up for you home automation geeks. I am a self-proclaimed MP3 fiend, to which I have tried rehab 4 billion times to no avail. Now what kind of music you ask? I will never tell.

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2 thoughts on “Who Should I Follow – finds new Twitter friends

  1. The link only pulls up an image rather than linking to their web site.

    Posted by Debbie Farley | September 2, 2009, 2:29 pm

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