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Finding other people on twitter
OK, I'm new to twitter. I want to find out if there is anyone I know on twitter. I don't have a gmail (or any other account) where twitter can scan my email contacts, so how do I find out if any of my hundreds of contact are on twitter - short of putting each person's email address in individually?
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Inappropriate?There are a few options:
1. Export your contacts from whichever address book you use, create a gmail account, then import.
2. Or, use a service like Twubble that will go through the people you have added and will agregate the most popular people that they're following. For example, if you have 5 friends from your company that are on Twitter, they most likely all follow some other member of the company. Twubble will show you this. Twubble is just assuming — it doesn't take email addresses into account. Twubble is available here: http://crazybob.org/twubble/
Even though it's a lot of work, I'd recommend option 1.
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Inappropriate?Thnnks Chris, I thought option 1 was the way to go - what a pain though, why can't twitter do this in a similar way to Facebook? -
Inappropriate?Yeah, that'd be nice. It's most likely an issue at Facebook's end because I don't think they allow email data to export with their API for security reasons.
Twitter should make a deal with Facebook to be allowed to do this, though. :/
