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Twitter wants a male twenty-something to follow “Thinking Moms”

By Ernst-Jan Pfauth
January 16, 2009
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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 advizes me to follow bots, events, an American celebrity and a group called MomLogic, “for thinking moms who don’t have time to think”. Well, uh, thanks!

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According to ReadWriteWeb, this could be the basis of Twitter’s new business model. Companies could pay to wind up in the suggest list. Did all the funds of Momlogic to Twitter ads?


  • Nicolas Mertens
    Moms dont need to think, the super-mom ´explains´ it all in this song...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESe-AysF9mw
  • Same problem here... Twitter suggested momlogic to me, and a bunch of other irrelevant crap. Seriously, how hard is it to make some decent suggestions?!
  • Martijn
    Seems like they present the same data to all tweeps, I got the same results
  • You know, we make good money over at TwitterCounter.com buy featuring (suggesting?) certain Twitter users. If it works for us it could work for Twitter.
  • Bob Boynton
    Are you really selling [see "buy"] recommendations? I am sure not.

    Ernst-Jan did a very nice review. Better than the other that had read the press release and had not bothered to try it.
  • Twitter wants a male twenty-something to follow “Thinking Moms" http://tinyurl.com/7flzet
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