Twitter Makes It Easy to Find Who to Follow with New ‘Connect Tab’

Online social networking service, Twitter (https://twitter.com) announced earlier today the introduction of a new feature “Connect” tab, designed to make it easier for users to find interesting and relevant accounts to follow on its service.

 The tab, available on both iOS and Android enables the ability to find friends and family from your phone’s Contact list with Twitter’s own algorithmically-generated “Recommendations.” Although, the ability to pull in contacts from your phone and see a list of recommended users were previously available, the Connect tab simply makes those features more accessible than before.

Twitter says it will explain why it is making these recommendations in the new “Connect” tab – meaning, you will see headings such as “Because you follow…” along with a list of Twitter accounts, for example, above Twitter’s suggestions, adding that these recommendations will be enhanced over time. At the bottom of the new Connect tab, Twitter chose to recommend its own official accounts in a dedicated section.

The service is now available  in the updated version of the Twitter mobile app on iOS and Android. To access it, you will see a little blue prompt introducing the Connect tab once it becomes available to you. This appears in the upper-left of the screen, by the “add friend’ button.