Whois for Twitter! Who knew?
Written on 7th January 2009
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David Petherick, Contributing Editor, United Kingdom
Although many of you probably use mobile or desktop clients such as Twibble or Tweetdeck to access Twitter, if you are using Twitter in your browser, and want to find out a little more about a Twitter user, there’s a faster way than visiting their profile.
Just type ‘whois username‘ into the twitter status field when logged in, and hit the [Update] button. (You don’t need the @ character preceeding username.)
Voila! You’ll be presented with the Name, Date of joining, Biography and URL for that user.
All that’s missing perhaps is the ability to immediately follow that user, or go to their profile page with a simple link – but it’s a quick way to check who’s who. Try it for yourself – [Open Twitter WHOIS in new Window] Simple. Nice. Who knew?
(Thanks to @andrewburnett for the tip, retweeted via @tomcritchlow from an original by @robousbey)
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Gaaf…http://tinyurl.com/7ahb3w doet me denken aan m’n eerste stapjes (IRC) op internet. Mijmer.
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liking the twitter “whois” stuff. Is it new or did I just not know? http://is.gd/eMyP
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Reading: “Whois for Twitter! Who knew? « TheNextWeb.com” ( http://tinyurl.com/7ahb3w )
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@dtcdeals No? Got it from here: http://tinyurl.com/7ahb3w Works on web UI for me
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[...] I picked up this great tip via Bob Garrett’s pointer to David Petherick’s The Next Web website . [...]
@bobbes jap also twitter-User-whois ..einfach “whois bobbes” eintippen via: http://tinyurl.com/7ahb3w
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wow!nice tip… write whois username in the status update field and check bio! http://tinyurl.com/7ahb3w
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twitter whois – ‘whois username’ + update via http://tinyurl.com/7ahb3w #heh
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Whois fürTwitter: http://tinyurl.com/7ahb3w whois + ‘username’ + ‘update’ klicken
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RT: @pauneu: Whois fürTwitter: http://tinyurl.com/7ahb3w whois + ‘username’ + ‘update’ klicken
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liest+probiert gerade http://tinyurl.com/7ahb3w [via @houellebeck via @pauneu]
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Cool! Whois for Twitter: http://is.gd/eMyP
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[...] Via TheNextWeb [...]
Neat twitter trick: http://tinyurl.com/7ahb3w
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Whois-Abfragen in Twitter “whois username” http://tinyurl.com/7ahb3w
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Don’t know if it will help, but found Twitter User info at this link: http://tinyurl.com/7ahb3w
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