13 Ways to Find Your Friends on Twitter

| December 28, 2009 | 12 Comments

As a mini social media application, twitter has proved that it can connect you and your friends through minute-by-minute updates about their activities and what they are doing at the moment.

Although the idea behind twitter is as simple as answering the questions (what are you doing right now?), it brings alot of ideas for 3rd party applications that can help improve working with twitter.  For example, you can find applications to promote your business, send your messages via mobiles and send payments via twitter…etc.

We will add more posts about most updated useful twitter applications categorized based on its use. But since the main use of twitter is connecting friends, I will start with sharing the most useful web applications that let you easily connect with your friends.

Nearby Tweets


Nearby Tweets lets you connect with people near where you live or work.

Just Tweet It


Just Tweet It connects you with friends that share with you the same ideas and interest.

Friend or Follow

This web application reveals who you are following but they do not follow you back in return. However, you can control if you like to keep following or not to follow them.

Qwitter

Qwitter keeps you updated with the people that unfollow you and update you by email.

TwitDir

TwitDir helps you to search for friends, tweets and connect you to people with similar interests and twits.

Tweet Scan


Tweet Scan allows you to search twitter based on twitter tags.

Twitter Local

Twitter Local is another web application to let you search for people on twitter near you location.

Twubble

Twubble can help expand your Twitter bubble—it searches your friend graph and picks out people who you may like to follow. Click the button below to get started.

Twitterel


By using  Twitterel.com on top of Twitter.com you can make your (virtual) life a lot more interesting, it connects you to other twitter users (from all over the world) who share the same interests as you do.

Mr. Tweet


Mr Tweet shows only the best news and conversations for you so you can easily engage with the people who really matter.

Tweepz


tweepz is currently crawling 10,403,019 twitter accounts, you can join its twitter account or use its search to find you frinds on twitter.

Tweep Search


Tweep Search is Indexing over 12.1 million Twitter profiles and allows you to search for your friends using the twitter account or search by keywords.

We Follow


We Follow is one of the most famous twitter web applications that allows you be friend with people with the interest as you have.

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Rafiq Elmansy is a graphic designer and runs his own design studio Pixel Consultations. He is also an Adobe Community Professional, Certified Expert and Adobe user group manager. He is a Friend of Icograda (the International Council of Graphic Design Associations).You can read his writings on Adobe site, Adobe Edge magazine, communitymx.com and his own blog www.graphicmania.net. He can also be followed on Twitter @rafiqelmansy

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