Finding New Friends On Twitter
Jan 05 2008 
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I hate that my number of followers/following is so low on Twitter. I really do. Don’t ask why; I just DO! So, with nothing better to do today, I resolved to try to find and make some new friends. Here are a few things I’ve done thus far:
- CHECK OUT FRIENDS OF FRIENDS (FOLLOWERS OF FOLLOWING)
- This is a really good way to find new friends, while staying within a certain circle or community, instead of making friends spread out all over Twitter. To accomplish this, on the Twitter site, I went to the people who I actively followed (notifications on) and on their page I used the ‘With Others’ tab to see who’s talking to them.
- DO A SEARCH USING KEYWORDS
- If you go to your Twitter page, underneath the ‘Stats’ section you’ll see ‘People’ and a search box. I hardly ever search for people on any site, so I usually use this box to search for Keywords. For example, if I want to find more people who might be interested in the website VIRB, I’d simply type in ‘VIRB’ in the search box and a list of profiles featuring the word VIRB will magically appear!
I used have 30+ friends. Now I have 40+ friends that I’m following, even more that’s following me and all of this was accomplished in two hours. What techniques are YOU using to find (new) people on Twitter?
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Oooh, I love making new friends on Twitter. I should do this. Thanks. Do you have Virb?
I used to have one, but I didn’t really socialize on it so I deleted it. I’m thinking about using it again, but I don’t want to use another Social Network (SN) unless I’m actually going to socialize. I don’t even have a Myspace anymore.
Hi! I just found your blog via twitter and added you. I think your blog/site is awesome! I am so glad to have found another young person of color in this space :)
Every now and then when I am feeling like my twitter needs more action, I go looking at the friends of my friends on twitter. Sometimes I also use Terraminds to search for keywords. I also track specific words and if someone says something interesting about the keyword, then I will check them out and add if I like. That’s actually how I found your twitter account. Anyway, I posted a long dissertation of how I use twitter on my own blog, so let me not repeat the same thing here lol.