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What About a Random Twitter and/or Twitter Gallery?
October 13th, 2007 at 1:30 pmSource:CenterNetworks -
As it appears that Twitter is staying around for a while, I have a couple ideas on how to improve the ability for each person using Twitter to find new people to follow. Twitter could become a new networking tool over time. We know that right now there are the following ways to find others:
- Click one of my current "following" –> click one of their "following"
- Search for a term "pizza" or "san francisco"
- The Atari 2600 "blocks" application which lets you span out from your "following"
But the search has issues - for example - people classify their location as "nyc" or "new york" or "yankee-ville", etc. And sometimes it’s nice to find someone who might not be in your current set (you know live outside your box?). And except for the search, the other options all are based on who is already in my set.
I would like to propose two simple ideas which I am guessing can easily be accomplished using the Twitter API. The first idea is a random search similar to StumbleUpon. In fact, StumbleUpon Twitter might be a great expansion for Garrett and the team. Instead of upvoting a site or video, you could add the person to your network.
The second proposal is to create a gallery/directory of each of us (if we decide to participate). This would allow people to find others in categories they are interested in without using a search hoping that the other person entered the terms the same way you are thinking of them.
If they are already available, I couldn’t find them. Do you think this would help you find new connections that you might not otherwise have? Check out our previous Twitter coverage.
