Twintro: Twitter's 'blind dating' service
New service helps you meet new, interesting, hand-picked people to follow on the micro-blogging site.
Robert Balousek, my collaborator on the Swagalicio.us blog, has launched Twintro a new service to help Twitter users find people to follow outside of the usual self-reinforcing Twitterholic circle.
If you follow Twintro on Twitter, you'll get updates from a different "fascinating, amusing, and thought-provoking" Twitter user every day. If you like what you're reading, you just start following that person so you keep getting their updates. You'll get a new person the next day.
Here are full instructions.
I think Rob is onto something, although this little service is all about the content. Rob's the guy manning the velvet rope, deciding who gets Twintro'd each day. I hope he has good taste. You can nominate yourself or someone else.
Related idea: I'd like it if there were a way to subscribe to the thought leaders in a particular category all at once. For example, I want to bulk-follow the best 10 or so Twitterers covering the presidential election--likewise, the best science writers and whoever is covering San Francisco politics well.
My name for this dream feature is "Twitter packs." If anyone knows of something like this, drop me a line or respond in comments, and I'll cover it. The same idea could work for FriendFeed; the "rooms" feature doesn't quite do it.