It’s been great meeting you on Twitter. You’re one of the few people who view Twitter as a way to have a “learning experience.” Still amazed at how many view it as a way to have yet another PR platform. We call blogs like that Puff-Blogs. So, we call Tweeters who only broadcast their own PR stuff and never provide any useful content – PuffTweeters.

You are the exception – offering new angles, views, resources and opinions. We thank you. And you say you’re just a casual user of Twitter!

I looked for a number of people who I know are Twittering – and Twellow was about as useful as YellowBook.com (wonder if they’re related?). Just one example – David Nour has been Twittering since June and Twellow says, “Twe Can’t Twfind Twhim.”

For our blog examples, I really did not want to search for people’s Tweets about themselves (you remain an exeption, my good man). Twitter is loaded down with people talking about themselves.

I was more interested in finding what is being said about people. I think that’s a fairly good way of determining who’s actually popular, vs. just who toots their own PR horn (again, present company….).

It’s a great search engine for finding stuff *discussed on Twitter*, but if you search for “Mike Keliher,” you’re only going to find a handful of tweets that mention me. You ain’t gonna find *me* (well, you will, but that’s because I’m self-centered enough to talk about myself — you get my point).

So while Twitter’s “people search” engine is down — a true absurdity, isn’t it? — I use another next-door establishment called Twellow.com. It’s intended to be a Twitter people finder, and it works pretty well.