Last night I happened across a stealth startup that’s growing quickly entitled Mr. Tweet. The site bills itself as your “personal assistant for Twitter,” but it functions as a very interesting version of Facebook’s friend finder.
The site asks you for your Twitter username, and then processes your connections and the content of your tweets. I input my name this morning, and by late this afternoon, it DM’d me with my ready report.
The report comes in two parts. The first part gives you a list of people outside your network that you should be following, assuming you’re interested in connecting folks who are talking about the same things you’re talking about and linking to similar things to what you link to.
As an extra bonus, you also get what my nerd-biased brain can only best describe as a sort of character sheet (yes, as in something you’d find from an RPG) describing the key characteristics and generalized attributes of the potential targets of follow.
For instance, in the instance of Darren Rowse, in addition to his short bio, location and website, Mr. Twee
"As an extra bonus, you also get what my nerd-biased brain can only best describe as a sort of character sheet (yes, as in something you’d find from an RPG) describing the key characteristics and generalized attributes of the potential targets of follow." >> I've got my Mr. Tweet report too. It is really a fascinating read.