Twitter introduced this feature mainly for the advertising aspect of things. However, you can surely follow your friends and co-workers without having a Twitter account as well. They wanted people to use it when they are out at a restaurant or at a bar and can subscribe to their Twitter accounts to receive promotions and special deals.

What do you think? Will you use this service?

New to Twitter? Need to find some people to follow? Google has just launched the Follow Finder by Google. Basically what it does is take the people you are already following on Twitter and suggests to you people you might like to follow but aren’t following. You follow?

Give it a try, type in your Twitter username and see what comes up.

Twitter launched their new advertising system this week with Twitter Promoted Tweets. Now when you search for something in the Twitter search, you will now see an advertising tweet. Look above, Starbucks has already cracked into it.

Today Twitter reveals their new homepage. Go to twitter.com to check it out.

Yahoo! wants to show the public they are still improving and moving forward in search. Yahoo! plans to turn over all their web crawling to Bing when the deal is finalized. Yahoo! will still continue to develop front-end enhancements.

For business, this is the most important tool you can be using right now. Twitter is the only medium currently where you can search a keyword or a product and find people talking about it in real-time. This is extremely important when you want to get some feedback on your product or service. You can see what people are saying about your company or your product. You can also choose to send those people a message. A lot of companies are moving to Twitter for their customer support as well. Customers are searching for answers. Why not be there for them?