• ReadWriteWeb, Thursday, May 5, 2011 12:21 PM

To recommend new content and highlight its full potential among users, Twitter has created an official account called @TwitterSuggests. Twitter has actually offered links to recommended members for months in its sidebar, but this new method accomplishes a number of things, according to ReadWriteWeb.

"It sends new users what might be their first @reply so they can see how the system works, and it is another attempt to get people to act on follow suggestions." Of course, retention of new users is Twitter's biggest problem and ReadWriteWeb believes this experiment could help solve the biggest challenges new users face: "boredom and pointlessness."

Unfortunately, "the recommendations are unsolicited and some of them are kind of dirty." Apparently created back in January, the @TwitterSuggests account was reportedly first noted by blogger Louis Gray.

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