Twitter Update Sends Follow Suggestions via Mobile Alerts

Twitter will more actively share personalized recommendations about which accounts users should follow, the company announced Tuesday. Users will now receive push notifications through Twitter's mobile apps if a number of accounts in their network begin to follow someone new, or retweet or favorite the same tweet

"If you’re like me, you occasionally feel like you’re missing out on some of the day’s great Tweets, or that you’re the last to find out when someone awesome joins Twitter," wrote Venu Satuluri, a senior software engineer at Twitter, on the company's blog. "We wanted to tackle that problem." Read more...