I am with you, there have been a lot of times when I’d have to sift through my friend’s followers to find people, but it takes a long time. Often, they have followers that are spammers because they don’t bother to maintain their account.

Good, I’ll keep using it then.

In some ways, it speeds up the process of looking through the followers/friends of people you’re already following. I think I found your blog, ProductiveCatholic.com, while manually looking at a friend’s followers and there you were. Mr Tweet tries to do that algorithmically to present you recommendations.

Mr Tweet is in a different category than those services that promise 1,000 followers automatically. That approach is a mindless numbers game with no opportunity to make a genuine connection.

You do need to give a public @reply to offer your own recommendations to Mr Tweet. Some will find that annoying and free promotion for Mr Tweet, but others find that helpful information and see it as a quality control measure.

Anyway, my question still stands: What do you think of Mr. Tweet and other apps that supposedly help you to link up with other like-minded Twitterers?

A lot of people I know use it, but some people say that meeting people that way is not the best since you don’t form relationships aren’t formed organically.