In one of the various groupchats I monitor, someone mentioned TwitDir the other day and I have to say that it’s an interesting little site.  You can obviously search on someone’s Twitter name, but you can also just search on more generic terms, like part of a person’s name or a location.  Searching on just “Burlington” showed me that there are two other Twitter users from Burlington, VT. (Well, or at least there are two other Twitter users who have identified themselves as being in Burlington, VT.  There could be others here who choose to leave the location blank.)

The various “Top 20” lists were also entertaining. On the “Top 20 updaters“, it is rather amazing to think that someone has posted 32,244 updates.  It would be curious to know the frequency at which they update.  (Unfortunately, this particular person is writing in what looks to be an Asian language and I have no clue what they are writing!)  The BBC World Service is in there with 27,224 updates as well. On the “Top 20 followed” (when it eventually appeared), it was no surprise to see Scoble on there, but I didn’t expect Dave Troy (the man behind Twittervision) to be on the top with 6,766 followers!

Anyway, if you are a Twitter user and haven’t checked the site out, you may find it useful – or at least briefly entertaining.