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Mr. Tweet. The service, which adds social context to Twitter by recommending new people you should be following based on their other connections, has seen a surge in usage since it started in November. And now it's improving its services to make them quicker and more useful.

A direct message sent out from the Mr. Tweet account on Twitter today states that updates will now be happening every two weeks. Looking at my account today, Mr. Tweet is telling me there are 69 new people I should be following based on my recent acitivies (tweets, who else I've followed, etc) and 99 recent followers that I should review because they might be interesting people to follow back.

Looking over their lists, some of these are definitely people I want to follow. Unfortunately, when I go to add them from Mr. Tweet, it makes me log-in remotely to my Twitter account, which I don't have a problem with except for the fact that it does this so it can tweet out a message promoting itself from my name (that is, if you say you will "recommend them," so I just said that I wouldn't -- a lie, but a justified lie).

The service is promising that there will be "many" other upgrades coming soon to help build better connections between people on Twitter.

Of course you could just bypass Mr. Tweet and find me on Twitter here along with fellow VentureBeatniks Eric Eldon, Dean Takahashi, Anthony Ha, Chris Morrison, Tam Vo, Camille Ricketts and Dan Kaplan. We have a VentureBeat account (for our posts) as well.

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