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

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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.

About The Author: 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. For more background information on Barry, see his full bio over here. See more articles by Barry Schwartz

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webandrank

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

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

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