Twitter tells you who they think you should follow
by Alicia Franks on Aug.13, 2010, under Twitter
At the end of July, Twitter announced that they would be rolling out a new tool – a suggestion engine that suggests people you’d like, based on your followers and who they dollow. It has been slowly added into most of the twitter users accounts and is available on the sidebar of your twitter page.
When you login, you will see two names and pictures now under your name and picture. These are just two of the people twitter suggests – you can click view all to see more, or just refresh the page (it cycles through).
This is much like the “recommended friends” on Facebook – but I think it is going to be much more successful. Facebook (at least for most of us) is more personal than twitter. We tend to only add people that we really know, not just friends of friends. Whereas on twitter, we follow those people regularly, which is why this tool will do so well!
So far, I have added about 15 people that it suggested and noticed an increase in the number of people following me per day, which I can only equate to more users starting to use this tool – and think that this trend will continue as more users figure it out.
Have you tried out the new “who to follow” tool on twitter? What do you think?
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August 17th, 2010 on 9:12 am
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August 17th, 2010 on 9:21 am
I think it’s a distraction, actually. Have you ever clicked the x next to a name? Another one comes into view. It’s an endless cycle. Twitter doesn’t know why I’m tweeting, so, how can it possibly know who I would like to follow? It can make an educated guess, based on an analysis of who I’m currently following, as you state, however, it doesn’t know WHY I’m following them, either.
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August 17th, 2010 on 12:06 pm
Twitter tells you who they think you should follow http://bit.ly/c2Q71E
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August 17th, 2010 on 12:06 pm
what do you think of the new twitter suggestions? http://bit.ly/c2Q71E
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