Twitter / todd – Twitter Name Search
Ev brought us a Twitter Christmas present, Twitter Name Search. It’s really that simple, and can be found from the Find People link at the top of the Twitter web page.
It shows you the results as in the picture below:
The result list is sorted from most to least followers. Each entry provides the basic profile information, including number of followers, and time of last update. A Follow button is provided next to each entry.
As you can see above, a search on Todd, my first name, returned my profile.
Nifty bonus: phonetic search
Notice I typed in dethrow for a search. This is an unusual last name as you might guess. I was surprised to see that it recommended tetherow, a phonetically similar name. Interestingly, there is a Tetherow.
I can see this will be immediately useful for finding long lost friends, and folks you’ve only been introduced to but didn’t get their Twitter ID.
Good job Twitter team. Merry Christmas.
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I have a feeling that I'll be spending a lot of time using this new feature :)
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