Twitter Launches Suggestions Tool
Mashable! — ... Which makes it noteworthy that Twitter has quietly launched a new feature: suggestions. This new page under the “Find People” section suggests Twitter users you may want to follow, based on an as-yet-undisclosed algorithm. ...

Twitter wants a male twenty-something to follow “Thinking Moms”
The Next Web — My co-editor Boris has just sent me a line about a new Twitter feature. So far, no word on the corporate blog, so here are my two cents. After introducing the Friend Finder a few weeks ago, Twitter takes it a step further by an attempt to make apps like followfinder redundant. The service suggests the following: Maybe you’ve heard of these Twitter users? Select the people you’d like to start following. I have no idea how they come the selection and honestly, the presented data sucks. Twitter ...

Would Twitter Charge You for Friends?
WebProNews Feed — ... from @JetBlue or @Zappos? That could happen. Could those companies keep their freshly purchased friends? Only if their Twitter output stayed interesting! In order for this to work, Twitter is going to have to make these recommendations a lot more prominent in the user experience and it's going to have to increase the quality of the non-paid recommendations. Right now they don't look very exciting to us. We like to search Twellow to find interesting new users to follow. Twitter Friend Suggetion Twellow is free by the way. The concept is interesting, but I'm ...

Roundup: The Jobs saga continues, Circuit City razed, Hulu apologizes and more
VentureBeat — ... Twitter now suggests users to follow — The service has launched the service under its “Find People” tab. It’s not nearly as good ...

Twitter Suggesting you New Friends
GO2WEB20 Blog — ... disabled (again), but then I noticed a new tab on the search section: "Suggested Users". Apparently, Twitter are trying to connect you with more new users, but I didn't actually understand based on what they're doing it because frankly I couldn't found a match with any of the them. ...

When IBM Beats Facebook And Twitter: Discover Relevant People Within Your Network
TechCrunch — When twitter recently added a "Suggested Friends" feature, I was more than a little disappointed. Unlike Facebook's "People You May Know" feature, no explanation is provided for why these people were suggested. In an enterprise setting, the most valuable people are the connectors: "The people who know which people know what", according to ...

Twitter's 'suggested users' get mammoth boost from new feature
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... A sampling of Twitter's "suggested users." Some high-profile Twitter accounts have been seeing astronomical jumps in the number of users subscribing to their profile updates -- tens of thousands of new followers, in some cases. A feature ...

Twitter Suggested Users Sending Follower Boosts To High-Profile Accounts
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Twitter has a feature that is similar to Facebook’s “Friends You May Know” and LinkedIn’s “People You May Know.”  This feature has been very effective in terms of high-profile users getting a ton more followers.  To find out who Twitter is suggests for you, visit this website: http://twitter.com/invitations/suggestions. When users sign up, they are shown featured personalities such as The Guardian, Felicia Day, TechCrunch, CNN, NYT, Dell, and Rainn Wilson.  Twitter started endorsing certain personalities in mid-January. ...

Twitter should buy Mr. Tweet
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life — ... a social utility would implement such a feature in a way that attempts to bring you together with people it thinks you know or who've implied they know you. A site that views itself as a personal publishing platform for would-be pundits and people interested in them will end up recommending the most popular users in a move that mirrors the Bloglines Top 100 or recommending people based on editorial choice instead of how they relate to you. Now compare the results of Twitter's Suggested Users feature shown below  with one of Mr. ...

Twitter Fires Up the Spotlight
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... Last month Twitter launched its ‘suggested users’ feature and the impact on those who were put on Twitter’s red carpet has been significant. Some of these profiles saw tens of thousands of additional followers added to their own personal profiles which created some very happy folks and, you guessed it, some not so happy people. The ...

How Much Is A Suggested Slot On Twitter Worth? Jason Calacanis Offers $250,000.
TechCrunch — ... When newbies sign up to Twitter now, they are presented with a list of 100 suggested users to start following. Simply being on that list can boost your followers well above 100,000. Several people and organizations on the list (such as Al Gore, Lance Armstrong, Kevin Rose, the New York Times, and CNN) now have more than 250,000 followers each. Many of the ...

Twitter Business Model Found!
Silicon Alley Insider — ... Jason Calacanis just put Twitter in business.  How?  He offered $250,000 to be one of 20 users in Twitter's "Suggested Follows" for two years.  ...

The Amount And Value Of Twitter Traffic
TechCrunch — ... is being written today about the value of a large following on Twitter. Jason Calacanis wants to pay $125,000 a year to have Twitter recommend him to other users, for example. He thinks that over time accounts with massive followings will somehow be able to pull in $1 million a year or more in incremental revenue, assuming they then have millions of followers. We have unique data to share because our TechCrunch Twitter account was made one of the suggested accounts on Twitter earlier this year. On February 11 we had 65,573 hard earned ...

Calacanis Offers $250K for Featured Twitter Spot
WebProNews Feed — You have to give Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis credit. When his name has been in the news most recently for employing a felon, he has managed to overshadow that with the buzz created by his offering of $250,000 to Twitter for 2 years' worth of Twitter's "suggested Follows." Here's a sample of what he said on Twitter: Calacanis has told the media that the offer is real, and that he believes in five years the top 20 spots will be worth a million a year. Naturally, as Twitter has still yet to ...

Twitter Suggested Users: problem and solution
Download Squad — ... Plenty of swirl this week about the Suggested Users page that Twitter newcomers see after sign-up. Jason Calacanis (co-founder of Weblogs, Inc., which publishes Download Squad) made a ...

WeFollow: A Top Twitters List
ReadWriteWeb — Kevin Rose, founder of Digg and the man who two years ago removed the Top Diggers List after deciding it could be problematic for his site and its most popular users, yesterday launched WeFollow; a user powered Twitter directory, the idea of which appears to be surprisingly similar to the Top Diggers List. WeFollow comes hot on the heels of Twitter's own Suggested Users List, which was created to help new users find people to follow. WeFollow attempts to provide a similar service but on a far larger scale. ...

Twitter's Suggested Users List is Part of Mainstream Push
Bloggers Blog: Blogging the Blogsphere — Twitter recently added a list of suggested users and some of the users and organizations on the list are said to be adding 10,000 followers are day. Some of these followers won't be very useful since they are just bored newbies bulk following the entire list but overall it's a big benefit to the people and organizations listed. The concept is very similar to the recommended feeds ( ...

Celebrities Embrace Twitter (and vice-versa)
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — ... and fake celebrities (e.g. @NotHenryRollins). Given that I quickly perused the list of users, it's possible that the number of celebrities is slightly higher. TV, Music, and Film celebrities alone accounted for 30% of users on the Twitterholic 100 over the past week. As to the reasons why celebrities are starting to dominate rankings based on number of followers, the one noteworthy event occurred in mid-January when Twitter began suggesting users to newbies. However, the suggested users feature is not the sole ...

Twitter: get as many followers as you can, as fast as you can!
Technology - Channel Feed — ... The sooking of many about Tweepme.com seems to center on the complaint that it’s not right to “artificially” inflate your Twitter follower numbers in some “non-organic” manner. Rubbish. Twitter does it! How else do you describe Twitter’s own new member recommendations page?! ...

What Twitter Can Learn from Google Reader
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog — ... This Suggested Users page is probably the most controversial element of Twitter. Think of it as an exclusive club where an entry can help you gain thousands of new followers on Twitter in a single day. ...

Twitter Co-Founder Talks Suggested Users
WebProNews Feed — ... Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has shared some insight into how Twitter selects accounts for the Suggested Users box. You know, that box that newcomers see when they sign up that ...

How to Get on Twitter's List
Today @ PC World — [image] How do you get on Twitter's suggested follow list ? It all comes down to a gut check, according to Twitter. In a post on Twitter's official blog , co-founder Biz Stone explained Twitter's process for selecting its list of 100 personalities and products the company thinks will help new users acclimate to the Tweeting community . If you are a prolific Tweeter, getting on the list comes down to a simple two-step process: 1. Fill out your profile and 2. Get famous or be Oprah Winfrey. Here's a breakdown of Twitter's method: Step 1: Algorithms. Twitter's ...

The Truth About Twitter’s ‘Suggested Users’ List
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... The “Suggested Users” list, which is displayed to new Twitter members after they create their account, can deliver 5,000 to 10,000 new followers a day, Calacanis says — leading him to call the placement the “next Super Bowl ad.” So how does Twitter actually determine who gets on the list? Twitter’s Biz Stone is opening up about the process. ...

Democratizing the Twitter “suggested users” list. Vote now!
Technology - Channel Feed — Seen this before? It’s the suggested users list that Twitter installed a few weeks back. A brand new Twitter users sees it at the conclusion of their signup process. @biz explained a few days ago how they go about selecting people for the list, and it’s still a whole lot less than clear and transparent: We’ve explained that the Suggested Users list is a bit like your local book store’s staff picks but there’s a little more to it than that. Our Chief Scientist developed a program that scans active Twitter accounts for a bunch of ...

Facebook Copies Twitter Again, Now Suggests Celebs To Follow
Silicon Alley Insider — ... Last month, Jason Calacanis wrote he'd pay $250,000 to be listed as a Twitter "Suggested Follow" for two years. Getting on Twitter's "suggested" list can drive hundred of thousands of people to follow a Twitter feed. ...

Twitter @replies Saga: Oops, but the Feature Isn’t Coming Back
Wired: Epicenter — ... Twitter itself is pushing the follow feeding frenzy by suggesting possible Twitterers that new signups may wish to follow to get the ball rolling. Wired.com on Thursday published its own list of ...

Study: Getting on Twitter's Suggested Users List Means Gaining 53,000 New Followers in a Week
ReadWriteWeb — It's no secret that getting on Twitter's suggested user list will quickly drive a user's follower numbers up, but thanks to O'Reilly's Ben Lorica, we can now actually quantify this boost. Lorica, with the help of tools like Twitterholic and Twittercount, examined data from about 80 users who made it onto the suggested user list. On average, these users gained around 53,000 new follower after being on the suggested user list for a week. After 30 days, these users had gained almost 200,000 new followers on average. Sponsor ...

Twitter Inspires a TV Show. A Revolutionary One!
Technologizer — ... I don’t wanna judge a series I haven’t seen–and, come to think of it, probably won’t make time for even if it’s a smash. But Twitter’s celebration of celeb-watching (as seen in its recommendation that you follow Britney Spears and Kim Kardashian) makes me nervous. I have nothing against ...

Correction: Twitter Didn't Exact Suggested User List Revenge on TechCrunch
Valleywag — ... In short, I follow TechCrunch on Twitter, so it does not show up in my list of suggested users. I did do some digging prior to my post to find out if everyone was presented with the same Suggested User List, and even confirmed with someone else that the user was not on that person's list, but obviously should have dug deeper in fact checking. ...

Correction: Twitter Didn't Exact Suggested User List Revenge on TechCrunch
Gawker: valleywag — ... In short, I follow TechCrunch on Twitter, so it does not show up in my list of suggested users. I did do some digging prior to my post to find out if everyone was presented with the same Suggested User List, and even confirmed with someone else that the user was not on that person's list, but obviously should have dug deeper in fact checking. ...

You’re not on Twitter’s suggested user list but you are in good company:
Scobleizer — ... Suggested User List I went through a bunch of emotions. Hatred. Jealousy. Self loathing. Blaming. Anger. Denial. All that kind of stuff. I have lashed out at it over the last few months here and there. Pissing off Tim O’Reilly and Veronica Belmont and a whole raft of other people. After all, I had more followers than any of my friends did before this list came along and now they all have millions of unearned followers that were gifted to them by winning a lottery called “the Suggested User List.” Also known as the “SUL.” ...

Is Twitter Smart to Ditch the Suggested User List?
WebProNews Feed — ... that they follow. The feature is very overdue, and could go a long way in making Twitter more useful and reducing "noise." The SUL, is a feature that lists users, which Twitter thinks new users of the service may be interested in following. The idea has always been that it would be a good way to help new users understand what they could get out of Twitter. Earlier this year, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wrote about it on the company blog. At the Web 2.0 Summit, Williams said the feature was initially meant as a way to ...

This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You
Valleywag — Dear redundant old-media bigwigs: Meet your eventual replacement, a 16-year-old with gigs as a professional journalist for TechCrunch, a marketing evangelist for Qik and as CEO of his own startup. Also, he's been officially endorsed by Twitter. A spot on the microblogging service's Suggested User List of accounts for new users has helped Daniel Brusilovsky reach just under 120,000 followers. He's also been officially "Verified" by Twitter Inc., lest someone impersonate the powerful 16-year-old. His influence at the microblogging startup apparently runs ...

Twitter To Make Suggested Users Feature More Like Twellow's?
WebProNews Feed — ... new users engaged with Twitter. This has historically been an important thing for Twitter to consider, as user retention rates have suffered in the past. "When you don't follow any other accounts on Twitter the product is not as relevant as it could be," Stone said in an old post to the Twitter blog. "To improve the user experience, we started suggesting some accounts to follow. As a result, new users are much more engaged and active." But since then, the company's attitude towards this list has changed. ...