Twitter Tools to Find Relevant People to Follower

As part of my social media marketing strategy, I’m always on the look out for interesting people to follow on twitter. With the huge amount of new Twitter users coming on board every day, you really need to spend time on the look out for new people to follow.   The primary way I find people to follow is by reading tweets, and looking at the twitter accounts of people who have been retweeted by the people I follow.  This usually adds a dozen new people for me to follow each week.

However, every two weeks I’ll use some great Twitter Tools that help me find the content leaders of the subjects in which I am interested in.  This strategy is great for both new people looking for relevant people to follow, and those who are looking at expanding their current tweets.

Top 4 Twitter Tools to Find Followers:

1. Twitters own search (http://search.twitter.com) – Here you can put in any subject and it will find relevant tweets for that subject. Always a good place to start.
2. Twitters’ yellow pages is Twellow (http://www.twellow.com/). This is a great online tool to find subject matter experts and people. It is a combination of a search page as well as a directory that you can search by subject area.
3. I’ve been using the search function in Tweet Deck (http://tweetdeck.com/ ) a lot lately.  Since I use TweeetDeck daily to keep track of my incoming tweets, I’m happy their search option has evolved to a very nice tool.
4. A relatively new tool is TweepSearch (http://tweepsearch.com/)  which is great at searching through Twitter users bio’s and profiles.

I’m sure these Twitter tools will help you quickly expand your Twitter network!

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