Yellow Pages for Twitter adds extended biographies

Written on October 1, 2008 – 11:00 am
David Petherick, Contributing Editor, United Kingdom

Twellow, the ‘yellow pages for Twitter‘, has extended its usefulness with the ability to create your own biography entry of up to 2,000 characters.

As well as being able to claim your twitter profile, and classify yourself in up to 10 categories (although I’m in 14 for some reason), you can also add your social media links to your profiles on Pownce, LinkedIn, Flickr, FriendFeed, etcetera - and now add more details about yourself in a mini-profile or biography.

The search facility in Twellow can also reach into your brief summary to pick up keywords and links used there, and your biography information can also include basic HTML, so links and visual formatting can be added. The summary is indexed in search - the biography does not appear to be indexed yet.

Apart from being a great way to find people using Twitter with similar interests, and pinpointing interesting people to follow, categorized Twellow profiles are also becoming visible in Google and Yahoo searches. So I’d recommend making sure you claim your profile at Twellow and add your details and social links to ensure your online visibility and credibility stay high.

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About the author: Scotsman David Petherick is a director & co-founder of several companies, and is a freelance social media strategy & visibility expert. David became known as ‘The Digital Biographer’ after a 2007 BBC interview, speaks Russian, wears the Kilt, and is a co-author for the book 'Age of Conversation 2.0'.

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2 comments to “Yellow Pages for Twitter adds extended biographies”

By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Oct 1, 2008

Pfew, I’m ‘Profile’ tired. I need an OpenId for Profiles: OpenProfile?

Then I could just enter ONE profile in ONE place and always point people there. Can you get me that?

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By David Petherick on October 1st, 2008:
@Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, I know what you mean.

The good news with Twellow is that at least your profile is pre-loaded with the information from your existing twitter profile.

But I think there is a big market for an ‘OpenProfile’ which hooks into all those social networks’ APIs and saves you from having to copy your information everywhere, and which updates them when something is changed separately. A sort of super vCard.

There is an attempt at something like that - see http://thenextweb.org/2008/09/.....the-crowd/ but I think a service that manages your profiles centrally will be something a lot of connected individuals would like to use.

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