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If you’re not familiar with Twitter, you’ve obviously been living under a rock – for about three years now. I would try to explain to you what Twitter is, but there are so many other sites that do that – and better.

So once you’re on Twitter, who do you follow? Well, you’d start with you friends more than likely, family, co-workers, etc. But these are people you already know. One of the great things about Twitter is being exposed to all sorts of people that you other would’ve never know about. Sure, the chances of you following a celebrity on Twitter and actually befriending them in real life is slim to none, but it’s still fun. So where do you find the cool people? I use two sites.

We Follow – Is a site by Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, that lists the top Twitter users based on how many followers they have and also has lists of other users based on tags. So you can search the site for tags that interest you, find people who tweet about those topics, and follow them.

Favrd – Not a well know site, but more recently has gained some traffic due to Ashton Kutcher tweeting about it. The premise is this: You can ‘favorite’ tweets on twitter if you find them funny or interesting or what have you. Favrd tracks these tweets and posts them on a leaderboard, based on how many people favorite them. So by checking out the site, you can see find some very funny people, who are getting their tweets favorited all the time.

Update: 6/15

Twibes – Twitter Tribes are essentially just groups of people coming together who are interested in the same thing and would like to communicate with each other. Twibes is a searchable directory of such groups. It also streams tweets from each of the Twibe’s members so you can see what everyone is chatting about.