When you spend a lot of time on twitter, you’re probably making lots of friends. One of the features that I think is great on Facebook is the mutual friends display. I use this frequently to determine if I should already know this person or perhaps what the context is of the reason I should know them.

Although not quite as easy to do within the twitter interface, there is a similar tool available from the Who Follows Whom website.
Who Follows Whom allows you to put in multiple twitter usernames, up to 5, and see who are the people that …read more

I know I should, it’s got lots of handy features, but I just haven’t gotten used to using FriendFeed for anything. I know it consolidates and organizes much of the updates that I’m interested in across a variety of social networks. I’m just not using. Why not?

Maybe I just haven’t spent enough time really playing with it to figure out how it could really change the way I handle social media. I love using twhirl to update my twitter accounts, and I’ve got my FriendFeed account setup in twhirl, but I just don’t use it.
I like the grouping functionality that’s …read more

If you’re on twitter but you regularly use a twitter client like twhirl, tweetdeck, Destroy Twitter or even Seesmic Desktop, you’ve probably not been to the twitter website recently. If you have been on the website you probably haven’t seen the homepage because you have to sign-out to see it.

Did you miss it? Yep, that’s the new homepage. It’s quite a significant design change compared to what was there before. There’s more of an emphasis on what’s being talked about on the network and even searching for your own keywords that maybe you’re interested.
I think this helps those people that …read more