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Digg Founder Launches WeFollow

Posted in awesome stuff, social media tools. on Monday, March 16th, 2009 by Ryan
Mar 16

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.

Feel free to let us know what you think by posting your thoughts in the comments section below. 

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Jamie

What happens if Twitter disappears? I mean, its not probable, but anything can happen. People are putting too much stake in one network and if it all goes one day, we'll have a lot of pissed off people with a lot of wasted time

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Donovan Roddy

@Matt Simple, create as many twitter accounts you need that would encompass the total tags needed and have each new follower to each of those accounts contacted with your main twitter account =0P

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Tom Glenn

It's a great looking site and a good idea - but it's severely flawed as you touched upon in your post. The site is really only another place to brag for the Twitter Elites. Adding yourself to the site when you have less than 10,000 followers won't really do anything for you. It just seems to be a waste of time.

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Stuart Flatt

Nice, simple but missing some features like a simple search for users (you can currently only search for categories). I got bored of checking if I was on there (some people have complained they are not being accepted) because my followers is only 130 ish (new to twitter) and I had to press next countless times!! With digg advertising for you I am sure it will do just fine ;) twitter.com/stuartflatt

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Matt

sucks you can only choose 3 tags, what if you're into more things?

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  1. Darren Easton says:
    March 16, 2009 at 10:31 am

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  9. David Cyphers says:
    March 19, 2009 at 11:20 am

    Are you on WeFollow yet? Here’s some info: http://bacn.me/288

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    March 19, 2009 at 11:27 am

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