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WeFollow is a genius move by Rose, but it still sucks

There’s been a lot of hoopla over the past few days about Digg founder Kevin Rose’s new brainchild, WeFollow. In case you missed it, it’s a service that addresses the apparently horrifying “suggested users” situation on Twitter.

Send @wefollow a tweet with three tags under which you’d like to be indexed, and you too can be buried beneath page after page of Twitter elite. It’s supposed to make finding users with specific tags easier, but for right now it’s pretty much just a high score list.

For example, Rose himself wins the tech category. Do you follow him? Check out his tweets – they’re not exactly what I’d call #1 Tech Tweeter material. Few links, lots of socializing. Tim O’Reilly at #5? Yeah, that’s a better choice.

I just don’t see much (if any) value in WeFollow right now for the little guy. Add yourself, sure, but know that you’ll be buried beneath a slew of popular users there just as your already are on Twitter.

If the service were put together by anyone but Rose, it’d be glossed over by RSS readers everywhere and filed amongst the dozens of Twitter API also-rans that appear on a weekly basis. Make no mistake, Rose’s status makes WeFollow what it is, not the fact that it’s a breakthrough.

For now, I’ll stick with good old search.twitter.com and twollow.com. They work very nicely, and there’s no pissing match going on.

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