WeFollow: Yet Another Twitter Ranking Service
WeFollow is a service recently started by Digg Founder Kevin Rose. It allows you to tag yourself and appear in an online directory of Twitter users. This should be useful in helping you find users interested in the same topics you are.
The Tags
Basically, you send a Twitter reply to @wefollow, telling it how you want to talk to yourself. For instance, @BlackWeb20 might send something like :
This would add @BlackWeb20 to the directory under the specified tags. The maximum number of tags you can have is three. My take on this tag limit is so that users have to pick specific areas they find most important. Because WeFollow uses these tags to create lists of the most popular users, it would be dangerous to have no limit. Spammers would have a field day and the value of the tags would be greatly diminished.
The Rankings
On the homepage, you will find Twitter users separated by tags and ranked by the number of followers they have. I can’t stand this type of ranking and was just tweeting about it recently. Anyone can go out and get thousands of followers. There are services created specifically for this type of artificial follower growth. The numbers mean nothing.
The Conclusion
I think WeFollow is probably a tool you may want to add to your arsenal if you’re looking for people to follow. It’s a very clean and simple site. It doesn’t do much at this point, but I expect that to change pretty soon. For now, I’ll file WeFollow under sites I don’t really get yet…right next to Digg.
Category: web 2.0 | Tags: Digg, kevin rose, twitter, wefollow
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For small communities in Twitter, such as geographical ones with low number of twitter users it works out great. See the Louisiana tag: http://wefollow.com/tag/Louisiana >.>
It's going to get an insane amount of traffic b/c everyone was waiting to see what he'd do after the pownce meltdown… Plus Ashton Kutcher is his boi…
For small communities in Twitter, such as geographical ones with low number of twitter users it works out great. See the Louisiana tag: http://wefollow.com/tag/Louisiana >.>
It's going to get an insane amount of traffic b/c everyone was waiting to see what he'd do after the pownce meltdown… Plus Ashton Kutcher is his boi…
Thanks for the info. I just implemented this for all of my Twitter accounts (@DanteLee @BlackNews and @BlackWomen). Hopefully, I'll see an increase in followers.
Rahsheen, this sounds like some tech stuff I really might be interested in, but at this moment I can't wrapped my head around this… I will have to revisit this post …lol