Find Friends On Twitter With Twitter People Search

Dec 24, 2008 at 9:18am ET by Barry Schwartz

Twitter announced that you can now use their people search feature to find friends, family or colleagues that are using Twitter.

For example, I wanted to see if any of my immediate family is on Twitter, so I searched for schwartz. It looks like I am the most popular Schwartz on Twitter (ahem). But it does list another 233 people with the name Schwartz, so I will scan through them to see if I know anyone.

I do wish there was an RSS flavor for this search, so I can track particular names. But the normal Twitter Search has RSS, so that works.

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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2 COMMENTS ON Find Friends On Twitter With Twitter People Search

webandrank, December 25th, 2008 at 7:59 am ET:

I don’t belive the new twitter search can increase the quality and the quantity fiends.
But for find some in my network yes!

mrjwalker, December 26th, 2008 at 12:03 am ET:

Nice. I expressed a slightly different take on Twitter here: http://bloglabs.net/blog/15-reasons-twitter-must-die

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