Twitterbelle: use favorites to find new people to follow

Favorites are a dramatically underused feature on Twitter, but if you know where to look, you can use them to find some people you might be interested in following. Twitterbelle is a new site that makes that process easier. Just put in the username of someone you think is interesting and has good taste in friends, and you'll see a list of the people he or she has awarded favorites to.

This is a bit more effective than just going down someone's following list, which will be chronological, not ranked, and sometimes extremely long. Maybe someone's following thousands of people, but favorites point out who they're really paying attention to. You can obviously also use Twitterbelle to check out your own favorites and see who's getting the most gold stars from you.

Tags: favorites, following, social-networking, twitter, twitterbelle