# Who are the cool kids on Twitter? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 29, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-cool-kids-on-twitter/498069 "2009-05-29T19:33:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![puddleglum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puddleglum/32/137_2.png) [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-cool-kids-on-twitter/498069/1 "2009-05-29T19:33:11Z")
If I had a twitter account would there be a way to find popular Twitterers who live in the same place or are interested in the same subjects or do I have to know who a Twitterer is before I can follow him. For example, if I wanted to find which twitterer who is interested in bluegrass in Austin Tx had the most followers would it be easy to do so? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-cool-kids-on-twitter/498069/2 "2009-05-29T20:56:05Z")
It’s not easy on the Twitter website itself - you have to pretty much know the exact user name to find someone with their search engine - but there are other sites like [wefollow.com](http://wefollow.com) that maintain directories. ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-cool-kids-on-twitter/498069/3 "2009-05-29T21:12:11Z")
or search for #bluegrass #austin, that combination of hash strings will net a listing of coincident mentions of your two search items. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-cool-kids-on-twitter/498069/4 "2009-05-29T21:22:23Z")
My favorite editorial cartoonist has a relevant comment on this [twitter](http://www.theonion.com/content/cartoon/may-25-2009?utm_source=featureband) phenomenon. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-cool-kids-on-twitter/498069/5 "2009-05-29T21:34:18Z")
But a lot of the good twitter people hire people to write for them. Like Obama doesn’t write his, of course it’s reasonable to expect he wouldn’t have time to do this, but it’s not so obvious always