Part of the magic of Twitter is discovery. Being an open social network, I’m able to find people I would never otherwise be able to connect with and follow them. If I’m lucky, they follow me back - and in that brief moment Twitter makes me feel like a kid who just made a new friend. I’ve met all kinds of great people through Twitter, and the numbers keep adding up.

But here is the thing….

Why don’t you make recommendations?

Seriously, take the advice of Jonathan at WorkHabit and tag tweets, then based on tweet tags give “follow” recommendations. In fact, just liberally borrow from Last.fm because their whole “neighbor” idea is pretty awesome. Sure, I can search for people - but why not encourage connection by having Twitter play matchmaker.

Monetization option: Charge for this feature. Or add it to a sweet of cool features for $3 month. I would probably pay $9 every quarter for Twitter to make friend recommendations and a few other things like alerts (sorry www.tweetbeep.com) and stats.

Thanks for listening.

Matt