Twitter Finally Useful With New Twellow Tool
Written by diane on June 26, 2008 – 1:54 pm -Just a bit ago, I received Websitepro’s newsletter and they have “exciting” news! They have developed their own “search Twitter” website, which hopefully, will allow like-minded people to make contact (and make it a whole lot easier to do).
If you use Twitter this should be right up your alley. Or, if you never saw the point to using Twitter - you just might change your mind.
The toughest part about Twitter was finding friends. Most of the time you had to rely on either your current friends informing you they have a new Twitter page, or maybe hunting down the information via your various friends say at BlogCatalog or MyBlogLog.
But, Twellow is looking pretty good!
Here’s a few excerpts from Websitepros own writeup about Twellow:
Since Twitter launched, there was one question to rule them all: What’s the point? The point of Twitter is still debatable, but a few hundred thousand people funneled in anyway, people from all kinds of backgrounds and interests, people with all kinds of connections. Only one problem: To find people, you had to depend on luck, or at least stumbling through a maze of faces and followers with the hope of finding someone interesting or relevant.
Enter Twellow.com, WebProNews’s Twitter people search and directory platform, a yellow pages for Twitter, or, as blogger David Risley has described it: this is awesomesauce. We don’t want to brag, especially since we made it, but it is kind of, well, awesomesauce.
Here’s the basics: Based upon Twitter’s open API, Twellow allows Twitterers to search for people on Twitter or, if they don’t exactly know who they’re looking for, they can search by categories sorted by keywords related to such things as industry, interests, or hobbies. If a user is looking to connect with someone in publishing, for example, Twellow will bring back Twitterers who have indicated that on their profiles, ranked by number of followers.
Because Twellow pulled from how people had categorized and named themselves on Twitter before there was a Twellow around, some were surprised or dissatisfied with how they were now appearing in public, as though caught picking up the morning paper off the porch (nice slippers!). Not a problem, users can now edit their own results.
Now this wasn’t the full email, but enough to give you a good idea - and hopefully tweak (or is that Twit?) - your interest 
Off to do some more searching! Hope we find you
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June 26th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
stumbled you!
ah registered at twellow
another good search tool is summarize.com
June 26th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
@JD thanks a bunch for the stumble! And the new tool, love new tools
June 27th, 2008 at 5:32 am
Ah, nothing like finding new tools to assist in figuring out what to do next!!!!
June 27th, 2008 at 7:17 am
@Linda now if I could only get that summarize page to load…? Guess it’s time to head to Google and try coming in the back door
June 28th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Thanks for new tools Ilove it.
http://dragonjambala.blogspot.com
June 28th, 2008 at 8:43 am
@rajesh you are most welcome
BTW, just from a reader standpoint, your two blogs may be trying to load too many third party widgets. I have a pretty speedy connection but gave up on the dragon site and your mydzo is very slow loading, too
Just trying to be helpful
June 28th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Hi Diane,
Thanks for visiting my blog and for your interesting point of view. I find your post very informative. I will study it and see if I can also use it. Thanks again and God bless.
June 28th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
@Mel thanks for the reciprocal visit! Hope to see you often
July 1st, 2008 at 8:54 am
Hi Diane
Thanks for the blog visit and wonderful comments. I have to admit I am sort of slow when it comes to twittering and I’m just getting into it more so this article is very helpful and a reminder of more that I need to learn. LOL Good advice. I am subscribing to your feed now!
July 1st, 2008 at 9:05 am
@Lisa it’s your fault I spent so much time last night on your blog LOL! It was like reading myself - not only the “years in service!” but your approach, attitude, the whole nine yards. I swear it was like hearing myself talk!
As for Twittering, we get the occasional visit. If you’re using Wordpress (I’ll have to double check your blog) then get the Twitter plugin for it. Then deactivate everything in the plugin except for the “posting something new.” Also change out the words that get published along with the post (I just do the title, seems like more than enough).
For anyone interested, that wordpress plugin is at: http://blog.victoriac.net/blog/twitter-updater
And yep, Lisa this would be right up your alley. Sort of “hands free” unless you really want to make the occasional trip into Twitter (which is advisable, people do write to you).
July 1st, 2008 at 9:09 am
I should have added, if you want to see what the Twitter Update looks like “in action” first:
http://twitter.com/oims
Be sure to remember to “follow” us!
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
i am not impressed with twitter , as same link appear again and again
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:10 pm
@Paul believe it or not, with interesting titles to your posts, you can get traffic this way