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Re: Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should’ve Built

Name — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:13:22 -0000

Piece of crap, way out of date data

Re: Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should’ve Built

Skipease People Search — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:10:27 -0000

This is going to be a great resource for headhunters and job recruiters as well as people looking to find other people and friends on Twitter.

Re: Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should’ve Built

Fireant — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:42:33 -0000

Good addition

Re: Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should’ve Built

Vanessa — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:19:42 -0000

This is just the directory I've been looking for!

I've been asking our blog visitors to share their Twitter profiles with fellow visitors as it's not always easy to know who likes what on Twitter so I'm glad I found this.

Vanessa

Re: Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should’ve Built

Lizi — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:09:59 -0000

Hey,
In the next few weeks we will add twitter profiles to our social people search engine - Copenda.

Stay tuned!

Lizi,
http://www.copenda.com

Re: Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should’ve Built

David Fry — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:38:06 -0000

It's another nice little tool.

I think twitter should use their spare cash to:

1) stabilize the platform
2) buy summize or twitscoop (with a strong preference for the second one, which does the same as summize + live visualization tool of twitter's topics)
3) buy twellow

And with this no Plurk of this world will be able to fight back.

Re: Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should’ve Built

Mark Evans — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:39:18 -0000

I agree that this is a feature Twitter should have implemented to make the service more useful. Maybe Twitter should use some of its $15-million in new cash to buy it along with Summize.

Re: Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should’ve Built

adoma — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:32:48 -0000

I love Twellow. It is a great tool. This is definitely something Twitter should have built themselves.

Re: Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should’ve Built

Facey Spacey Technologies — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:02:35 -0000

@rykos, the thing is that it searches people based on their bio. You can't do that with google--just search all of the twitter domain, i.e. all the tweets and bios, which is still very useful, but not the same.

...Anyway, I wonder what would happen if Twitter straight-up started to charge for use of their API? I bet they'd make a pretty penny, but wouldn't be able to last more than a year or two after that.

James
from
FaceySpacey.com - "The Startup Incubator"

Re: Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should’ve Built

Jeff — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:01:54 -0000

We're going to be seeing a lot more functionality on Twitter itself once they get the platform stabilized. This app is necessary but not sufficient.

Re: Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should’ve Built

efimor — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:43:45 -0000

Good addition to Twitter tools. It seems one of the best ways to find interesting new people in Twitterland.

Remind me again why Twitter is not building this stuff in the tool it self?

Re: Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should’ve Built

Adam Ostrow — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:28:32 -0000

perhaps the making money part of it? Search is where the lion's share of money is made online and Twitter has effectively ceded it to others

Re: Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should’ve Built

Dan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:24:11 -0000

What part of the definition of "communication utility" don't you understand Adam?

Why bother with cluttered front ends when others will build them when you are in the middle of ALL communications. They still control everything.

Re: Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should’ve Built

Mack D. Male — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:50:16 -0000

The problem with making these excellent tools part of Twitter itself is that they'd be unavailable half the time ;)

Re: Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should’ve Built

Andrea Yager — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:38:24 -0000

Hey. Wow. I am going to have to be more mature around my social networks. As a result of this new tool, I had to change my Twitter bio to be a little more serious. Include words like Entrepreneur and Woman. Twellow doesn't have a category for Internet Millionaire :) . Shame.

I have just been seeking the right people to follow and this will help immeasurably.. thanks!

Re: Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should’ve Built

Adam Ostrow — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:24:55 -0000

good feedback ... they note that their site is "public pre-alpha" so I'm sure they are working on some of these things :-)

Re: Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should’ve Built

MMartin — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:20:57 -0000

Impressive work. And really fast to get the result of a search query. But I do not have the full picture: (1) Disclaimer: I do not like directories in general (2) sounds like they scanned the content of the bio to decide in which category you are. OK. But what if I want to edit the category I'm belonging? (3) I am a bit disappointed there is no label/tag system.

Re: Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should’ve Built

Rykos — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:18:32 -0000

Categories are a little subpar. Horrid yellow. Don't know if I would actually revisit the site or just straight out google the categories instead? Easy business to duplicate and beat (site redesign?).

Re: Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should’ve Built

Oli — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:55:03 -0000

I can't make my mind up over Plurk. I like it, but no-one seems to use it. All my followers, and the people I follow for example.

Re: Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should’ve Built

Adam Ostrow — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:52:11 -0000

both this and Summize should be a part of Twitter. It's a great API and all, but search is such a big feature and Twitter is just handing the keys to others ... Oh well, awesome tools either way.

Re: Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should’ve Built

Oli — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:49:10 -0000

Now this I like. Why doesn't Twitter have this built in?

Re: Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should’ve Built

SportsBizGuy — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:48:44 -0000

We really need something like this for Plurk