I mentioned before that hovercards was going to be the best feature twitter could have. Unlike their retweet button which made retweets easier although it wasn’t needed. Hovercards is a feature that will benefit a lot of people. It will also change follow friday by making it more interesting.
How will it change follow friday? In the past we were spammed by so many people spamming us with follow friday tweets which meant nothing. All we can see are names or usernames flooding our time line, but now, hovercards helps us to browse through those list without opening their profile and actually finding great people in those flooded follow fridays tweets.
Here I have an example of a GOOD follow friday done by @SmileMoki
Last time we had to open the profiles one by one to check if we followed the recommended twitterer or not. Now all we have to do is move our mouse to the twitter username and a box will appear like the one below.
Now you can click “MORE” to check the twitterers information or bio to see if he or she is interesting just like the one below.
As you can see @2morrowknight is an interesting person where he blogs for huffingtonpost and is even a Children’s book author. If you have not followed him before, now you can decide to follow him or not.
Not only that, you can check his last tweet as well. This will help by eliminating spammers that sells tooth whitening products.
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This is great Aaron. Thanks for posting about this. Ironically, I had navigated to your Twitter page via another of your articles here (good follow Friday) and noticed while I was on your Twitter page that this new feature exists. Just by chance I clicked to your site an here you're describing it. Thanks man!
I don't hardly ever make it to the actually full sized Twitter.com page since I live in my iPhone and Tweetdeck. =)
-Joshua Guffey
Great post Aaron!
Of course those hover cards are going to be the perfect place to slip some google ads into
I'm loving the new feature, too Aaron. I also like how it's easier and faster to DM someone from there. 🙂 Thanks for this cool post, and yes, I DO already know that group of great #FFs 🙂 Cheers. G
Love this post, Aaron~!! The tooth whitening jokes NEVER get old for me~!!! Yes, an actual big LOL for me~!! Thank you!
And now, Paul Conroy has developed a bookmarklet to hide and unhide the hovercard for convenience:
http://www.conroyp.com/2010/03/20/decluttering-…
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Anita @ModelSupplies
Interesting and true – up to a point. Your article prompted me to try out the 'more' feature. Seems I can only see some of these. More often than not as soon as I move my cursor to try to click for 'more', the hover box disappears. No combination of keys I've tried holds it in place. Doesn't happen every time. Any suggestions?