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 both people are following and who are the people that are following each twitter user.

The Who Follows Whom website is a nice little tool to use to find more people that may share the same interests and expertise as you and your other trusted friends and followers on the micro-blogging site.

The ability to put in multiple names, up to 5, really allows you to fine-tune and search for people that have a potentially very tight relationship and integration with other members of a group.

The next time you’re wondering who to follow or who that person is that may be following you, see how everyone is connected with Who Follows Whom.

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Who Follows Whom on Twitter

According to Paul Bernard, a veteran executive coach and career management adviser who runs his own firm, many job seekers make the mistake of relying too heavily on online job boards, particularly at the start of their search.

Bernard advises job seekers to begin to network immediately. Not only can networking expand your possibilities but it can also build and demonstrate skills, he said.

“Networking builds confidence and gets you into the hidden job market,” he explained, referring to unadvertised job openings.

You really need to have a network that you can rely on. Let people you know, from professional associates to relatives to high school buddies, understand that you are looking for a job. This way you will come to mind if someone you know hears anything. Additionally, you can attend networking events and get to know new people.

This even works online. You may scoff at social media’s usefulness, but the truth is that some social networking sites are great places to find jobs. LinkedIn is an especially helpful place for professionals to network. Twitter and Facebook can also provide you with job hunt connections.

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Job Hunt Tips: Don’t Forget to Network

Public lists can be shared with other twitter users and the NHL has taken this functionality and created a very targeted business use for hockey fans. The NHL (@NHL on twitter) has created lists for each of the active NHL teams, as well as some older teams that no longer exist.

When the Twitter Lists functionality first appeared the folks behind @NHL decided to create the lists for each team and ask their followers which list they’d like to be added on as fan. To date they’ve received almost 4000 requests from twitter users. If you’d like to be added to a list, just tweet the NHL account @NHL and include the hashtag #myfavoriteNHLteam and they’ll add you to the list for that team.

The NHL has had to work with twitter to get around some of their limits, which currently allows a single account to only host a max of 20 lists. With the success of this real-world business use of the lists functionality, Twitter has allowed the @NHL account to host more than the 20 lists. The folks @NHL are now working on an option to let them share and interact with all of their lists above the 20 threshold.

Kudos to the NHL for pursuing this social media option for really interacting and building some interest around their teams. I wonder how long it takes for the other professional sports leagues to follow the NHL’s lead.

Follow this link to see the list of @NHL teams you can follow.

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The NHL Scores on New Twitter Lists

I’m not sure how it is all these accounts on twitter have been getting hacked so prolifically lately. I don’t think all of these people have simple passwords that are getting cracked, so what’s happening? Are there machines infected with other malware that’s collecting login information?

Aside from the major PR issues that a entity like MSNBC is going to have to deal with after this kind identity theft, twitter is going to have to start doing something a little more to protect the security of the network.

If more and more people start to think that they can’t safely click on links or use the micro-blogging service, users are going to start dropping off and going to other channels for the same types of information.

I’m curious, if you’ve had your account hacked recently. Do you have any ideas of what happened? Too simple of a password? Other malware on your computer? What’s the deal?

UPDATE: If you’d like to see some of the tweets that were sent out through the account before it was suspended you can see them on this TechCrunch article about MSNBCHeadlines twitter account getting hacked. Caution NSFW! Language ahead matey!

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MSNBC Twitter Account Hacked

The nice addition of the Twitter lists functionality is that when you create the list you can make the decision on whether or not you want this to be a list for just your use (PRIVATE) or a list anyone else can subscribe to and use (PUBLIC).

You can search for followers and add them to one of your lists or you can add people to lists as you follow them within the service. To get your lists up to speed you can open your existing "following" listing and move people into lists as you prefer.

As the graphic shows, I’ve currently got two lists created, so when I click on a follower I can add them to one or multiple lists if I desire.

When you create your lists and want to share them, they’re simply found as an addition to your normal Twitter page. For example, my two lists are available at the following URL’s:

• http://twitter.com/Bnpositive/businesses
• http://twitter.com/Bnpositive/indianapolis

I’m still updating my lists, so you’ll see some of the great folks I follow on twitter soon. As people create and add you to their own lists, you’ll be able to see where you appear on those lists as well. There’s a new link in your profile sidebar next to your followers and following stats. Hopefully I won’t be turning up in anyone’s #twanker or #socialmediadouchebag lists

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Twitter Adds Followers List Functionality

Peek

Let me say that again: a messaging device you can only use with Twitter. A Tweevice that’s good for one thing alone.

Is it madness? You’ll have to decide for yourself. But I wonder if Twitter has really become so important that we’re ready for a computing device that allows you to do nothing but Tweet, 24/7. Especially when you can already do that all you want on your smartphone.

Peek’s current lineup consists of two flavors: the Peek Pronto, a $59.95 model that includes unlimited email and texting, and the Peek Classic, a $19.95 device that’s good for just email.

The TwitterPeek hasn’t been officially announced, but it’s available to pre-order on Amazon.com at a $99.95 price point, which comes with 6 months of service. After that, you’ll pay $7.95 a month to Tweet your little heart out. It has a QWERTY keyboard, a click scroll wheel, and a full color screen.

An exact date of availability is unknown, but the TwitterPeek is expected to arrive before Christmas.
In related news, it seems the company has created a new version of the hardware with dedicated Twitter access. We’ve seen images of the box, above, and we’re asking for more info right now.

Image: Amazon.com.

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TwitterPeek

I’ve found quite a few great people to follow through this weekly twitter ritual. It’s an interesting phenomenon because the recommendations are usually right on. My own preferences and twitter habits mean that I pretty much only follow someone that I’m truly interested in hearing from and trust for a variety of reasons.

The challenge for me is to think about who I should recommend to my other followers as my own #followfriday recommendations. That’s where the Auto Follow Friday tool comes in.

Auto Follow Friday is very straight-forward. You enter your Twitter username, there’s no need for your password, and based on your twittering habits, the application will recommend a handful of other twitterers that you tweet most based on your previous 100 tweets.

What better recommendation than those people I’ve talked with most recently? I think to expand the tool it would be interesting to select different people based on different criteria on successive weeks.

Find some new folks to follow and dialogue with on twitter with Auto Follow Friday.

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Twitter Auto-Follow Friday Tool

Parker McLachlin (Image: Zuma Press)

The third-year pro was informed of his infraction by the PGA, after tweeting during a longer than usual wait on the back nine.

“Just made birdie on 4. Waiting on 5th tee. First tweet during a tourney round. Don’t want to get too used to this!”

McLachlin wasn’t the only player guilty of violating this PGA rule.  His playing partners on the day, Brad Faxon and Glen Day, were both using their cell phones to check football scores.

The PGA informed McLachlin that he’s unlikely to face any penalty for his in-round tweets.  As for Faxon and Day, they have yet to be contacted by PGA officials.

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Golfer Violates “No Tweeting” Rule

I’ve been using Twitterfeed for quite awhile now and have it running on a number of different blogs for clients. I’m not the only one using the tool either, as you can see from the graphic above they’re pushing thousands of feeds through the tool.

With all that traffic, they’re also releasing some additional features for users.

Twitterfeed now provides the opportunity for you to publish to more than just your twitter account. You can also publish to Pubsubhubbub, Facebook and incorporate Google Analytics along the way.

Getting your message out there and the data to find out what’s sticking to the wall per se shouldn’t be any easier. Twitterfeed is delivering it all.

A quick review of the simple, basics is that you can tweak the feed to add a prefix or suffix to each tweet and schedule them so that they publish at pre-determined times around the clock.

If you’re not already using it, go take a look at Twitterfeed and see what you’ve been missing.

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Twitter Feed Buzzing Along

It appears that Google will be adding some social search functionality to their toolbox. Currently in development in the Google Labs, we’re told it should be coming publicly available soon.

The idea is that when you search, there will be results offered from those in your social networks as well. So, if you’re searching for images, you can bet that your friends images on flickr will come up in the results if they fit your search terms.

Looking for something on a hot topic floating around the web? If your friends are talking about it on twitter, then those tweets will show-up in the results as well.

The hooks into your social networks will come from those networks you’ve tied to your own Google Profile. I guess the downside of that, or upside depending on your viewpoint, is that you’ll now have to setup a Google Profile for yourself as well.

All in all a pretty powerful feature to have at your finger tips if you’ve built up a strong and connected social network of friends. I truly believe that taking advantage of the networks we’ve built with each other, trusted friendships and tight integration between our various online presences will become the key to the future of search.

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Google Releasing Social Search Functionality