Twitter Thinks It May Know Your Friends

Love the "People You May Know" feature on LinkedIn? Then you may be happy to learn that Twitter is essentially copying the feature. Instead of a widget, though, Twitter will suggest potential contacts via a weekly email.

Twitter already offers suggestions for who to follow, of course, and those have gotten more prominent (and relevant) on the site as the company has refined the widget. It's based on an algorithm that has gotten better and more personalized, and now even takes into account your location.

"People You May Know," however, gets populated differently. Twitter said in ablog post that the people suggested are based on "signals" such as who your friends follow and the con…
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