A few weeks ago I told a man who worked at a big company about watching Foursquare employees chatter in a column on Twitter. He said, “I wish my competitors talked so freely on Twitter, but I’m sure they don’t.” I sent an email to the virtual assistant program FancyHands and asked them to look up engineers at said company on LinkedIn, then search for their names on Twitter and send me those usernames. I got enough back that I was able see what lists they had been put on and find more. I then put together all those people on a list and sent it to my new friend – saying “your competitor’s engineers do chatter publicly on Twitter, here’s one link you can click to subscribe to them all in one stream.” Thanks, Twitter.
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