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I have been dormant on twitter for a while, ever since I decided to keep my head down and focus on building stuff without tweeting too much before internal beta. However I do read tweets on regular basis and always end up finding interesting people, brilliant services. Here is an example from today, an overcast Saturday while the city soaked in the mysterious pacific mist outside my window is perfectly picturesque.

Not sure how @gwenbell merged into my feed, but her tweet “I never hire somebody without having a meal with them, Would you?” got me curious. (yes I would, lol). A visit to her twitter profile landed me on her website http://www.gwenbell.com, completely pleased with the way it was designed, I clicked on her note at the bottom of the page: “Krystyn rocked the shit out of this”; Naturally, I clicked to Krystyn’s website, completely enjoyed her design style and hence followed her on twitter @squaregirl; at this point, I was also drawn by the touching photo of her Fiancee with her notes

“After a beautiful day in the city and playing in the snow, @richyferrell asked me to spend the rest of my life with him.”

. Although it made me feel sad about loss of my love of life, it did not stop me from clicking on “Come in, we are hiring” attached to something called “Authentic jobs”; As you will discover like I did, I was utterly impressed with the simplicity and powerful utility of Authenticjobs.com (@authenticjobs), it quickly becomes my favorite recruiting web services. Of course, I came across this great company who Krystyn works for, called http://www.squarespace.com/about

That wraps up my 1 hour adventure on the web, starting with a simple tweet.

To sum it up, my little journey (or dynamic social graph) was like:

@gwenbell
-> http://www.gwenbell.com
-> http://www.squaregirl.com
-> http://www.authenticjobs.com
-> http://www.squarespace.com/about

In this process, I was influenced by two creative women, inspired by one great web service (authenticjobs.com), and encountered a great company called squarespace, while enjoyed about 20 photos from flickr streams of these people.

There is one common trait among all these people: they seem to care deeply about what they do, and strive to put their best foot forward.

Tags: social graph, twitter

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