I'm a sucker for visuals. Give me infographics, show me a visual rendering of information, map something out for me in pictures, it just clicks with my brain. I recently posted about MentionMapp which creates a diagram for connections and conversations on Twitter.
I'm now on Mirror.me which shows my "interest communities" in a word cloud called a "Reflection." (My Mirror.me is here.)
Click on one of the words in my personal cloud, and it leads you to others in my Twitterverse who share a particular interest. I clicked on "Writer," for example, and was led to 99 results including Mathew Ingram (@mathewi), Liz Gumbinner (@mom101), Liz Sabater (@blogdiva) and Rachel Sklar (@rachelsklar). Great to be included in their interest community!
Of course, I did find this "connection" pretty hilarious:
Right off the bat, I like how Mirror.me extrapolates the interests of people in my Twitterverse and presents them instantly to me based on specific shared interests. I've yet to spend a lot of time cultivating lists on Twitter because tend to be so labor-intensive and require a lot of discernment on one's part to determine if someone fits into a particular list. Mirror.me seems to take some of the randomness or guesswork out of finding your tribe on Twitter.
How do you find your tribe(s) on Twitter?
Thank you so much Aliza for writing about us. I wanted to point out that our tool makes Twitter lists for you. Here is a post about that: http://blog.mirror.me/how-to-make-a-twitter-list-on-mirrorme
Posted by: MirrorDotMe | June 30, 2011 at 09:27 AM
Yes, Mirror, thank you for pointing that out. I did have a line about that in the post, but when I tried to set them up, it processed forever and then didn't work. I figured it was a temporary thing or my Alaska connection.
Posted by: Aliza Sherman | June 30, 2011 at 09:52 AM