Twitter engineer Nik Kallen has just tweeted that a new feature called “You both follow” is being tested on twitter. The feature shows a list of users that both you and the person’s profile you are looking at are following (screenshot to the right).
The feature is currently only available to 10% of users but we hope it will be rolled out to the other 90% soon. It’s something that maybe should have been introduced some time ago although I must admit, despite it being a prominent feature on Facebook, it’s not something even I considered would be useful on twitter until now.
You should know there are a couple of tools that already let you do this. The best is unquestionably refollow (which offers a lot of other very cool functionality).
No word as to how soon the feature will become available via twitter’s api.
We’re testing the “You both follow” feature (in the profile sidebar). Only 10% of people have it for now.
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Hm. I’m game for this. Still probably not enough to make me use the web client, but it’s pretty cool.
I would rather want to know who, among those I follow, follows a certain user. That info would tell me if someone is worth to follow much more than knowing who they follow that I already follow too.
Agreed; that would be much more useful.
I’ve used a third-party application called Twiangulate for several months — http://twiangulate.com — that lets you plug in two or three usernames and the system shows common users they follow. That’s how I routinely find new people based on people I already trust/retweet.
Very interesting. I would also like to check out each person before I follow. Its commendable that Twitter continues to try new options.
I have this feature and hope it stays! Its nice to know who is in your networking group!