As promised starting this week we will be featuring twitter application and services related to twitter. The first one that we would like to cover this week is Twellow - a twitter search directory. Although I am a pretty active twitter user I am not pretty heavy into twitter search and all that stuff. However, I do use a few twitter related services and applications. I am not sure if there are other services like Twellow out there, but this one certainly did catch my attention.
Twellow is like the “yellow page” of twitter users. It is a directory where all twitter user are listed based on their interest or profession. The users are categorized based on certain words that are found on their profile. If you are looking to follow people within a certain niche, profession or sports I think this service can be of tremendous help.
Although the site’s design looks pretty “oldish” it is pretty easy to use. You can either use the search box to find someone based on their profession and so on or use the listing which is called “Twellow Categories.”
Once you hit the “search” button the results are shown based on popularity. The users who has the most number of followers are shown on the very top and so on. You can login to the site using your twitter account. I logged into Twellow using my twitter account and upon searching I found that most people that I am following are still shown with a follow button. This kind of makes it hard to analyze who you are following and who you have yet to follow if you have a large number of followers and following.
All in all I personally think this is a pretty helpful tool for twitter users. If you are looking to follow users within a certain group or niche this certainly makes the task easier. If you know of any other services that are similar to this please feel free to share with us.
