My Twitter Software will search for suitable people to follow, and it certainly works most of the time.  However with all these automated tools they use directory searching and rely on the information in the directory to be right.

Twellow is one such example.  The problem with this is you can also be following a lot people who are not relevant, and end up being on the receiving end of a lot affiliate sales tweets (I guess SPAM springs to mind).

However I came across a blog comment the other day that broke down a Google query that will search across twitter BIOs.  Now this is clever and its simple.  All you need is to run in Google is:  ”bio*” site:twitter.com your phrase  so for example if I am looking for people in recruitment software, then the phrase would be:

"bio*" site:twitter.com recruitment software

Try it…you get accurate results and a more focused group of people to follow completely relevant to your interests.

Thanks to Greg at Staffing talk