How to Search, Find, and Contact Twitter Users (Tweeple) By Their Bio and Location

It’s an easter-egg hidden feature

In the good ole days before Twitter started locking down their API, you could use a program like Guy Hagen’s Twitseeker and it would automatically find people based on their tweet or bio content. Then, you could select up to 50 people at a time and follow them all. Following all these people would send out a Twitter generated “You have a new follower” email. But even better, Twitseeker would @message everyone automatically and say, @you followed @target using @twitseeker.

You’d get a 70% follow-back rate. That was astounding. Not any more.

Now, you have to be smarter. You can use a webapp like my http://untweeps.com … after you authenticate, you unfollow people based on the date since they last tweeted. Then, on the results page, you’ll see a tiny link asking if you want to follow new people. It’s an easter-egg hidden feature.

Or you can also use Google to isolate only twitter user pages based on their bio and location. While you can’t tell google to differentiate between their bio and the tweet content that appears on each twitter user’s page, since Google has a really cool “proximity relevance” feature, you can just include the words, “bio,” and “location,” to tell Google to focus on that section of any twitter user profile – Just like I did below.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at http://twitter.com/journik

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