Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com has recently launched WeFollow, a Twitter directory. There have been many other attempts to build a complete user directory (see also: Twellow, Twibs, and many more) but based on the ease and early popularity of WeFollow, it just might succeed.
This weekend, Kevin Rose used Digg to announce WeFollow. The post, which of course made it to the front page, attracted thousands of users to start using and listing themselves on the directory. It’s quite simple to use, simply send a tweet that looks like this (just replace the tags with whatever you want).
WeFollow scans Twitter and will organize users based on the tags they tweet. Each user can submit themselves to a maximum of three different tags (at least for now). Then WeFollow organizes the users by category listed by the number of followers each user has. Here’s an example of the social media category:
Because WeFollow only lists users by number of followers, those seeking to use the directory to connect with users like them or that they would like to connect with, WeFollow may be limited. Of course if you want to connect with top social media “authorities” then it may be great, but good luck really connecting with those individuals. It seems twitter.grader gives a more valuable directory of users per category using its grading system, simply type in any “tag” you want to search.
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