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 :

@wefollow #blck #tech #blog

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.