How does it determine location? It doesn't seem to be terribly good at it... I'm in Portland, Maine; when I put the slider all the way to the right (presumably to find people close to me), it gave me a bunch of results in California.<p>Not that I blame the app for having a tough time... there's not a lot for it to go on for figuring out the geographic location of a user. And I can see why it might get confused between the real Portland and those impostors in Oregon who stole our name!
I didn't think this was too useful. Deeper scraping to find more info about the person (or even some recent tweets) would make me want to follow them.<p>I've already found myself un-following from people who update too often or too often with banal content, cluttering out the rest.
@mosburger Location is found from a user's "location" field on twitter (and geocoded with google) . Only ~50% have geocode-able location fields. And the location is only part of the scoring, so there may not be that many similar people in Portland, ME.<p>@ivankirgin Agreed that including stats on how often someone tweets and other stats would be useful, like "twitter quotient":
<a href="http://web.forret.com/tools/twitter-tq.asp?name=Scobleizer" rel="nofollow">http://web.forret.com/tools/twitter-tq.asp?name=Scobleizer</a>