[patio11]

SourceCow answers the biggest question we've all asked ourselves- why is that person following me?

I sort of doubt this is, in fact, the biggest question for most people. Or even most people among those on Twitter, who are a small fraction of the total population. Or even those users of Twitter who have fallen within its reality distortion field and think that their follower count means anything, since the reality distortion field suggests that the count is important rather than the individual followers.

Your startup requires that X perform an operation which is expensive in terms of time, effort, and perceived risk (installing a plugin and then commenting) without receiving value so that Y can receive value. That is a virtually perfect recipe for not gaining traction.

Very nice design, though.

[floozyspeak]

Obviously there's some marketing speeel in there but I do think in general folks wanna know why they're being followed.

I mean lets just go over to search here...

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=why+do+people+follow+me

There's some ammo right there to back up a concept like this. Will it save lives and make oodles, maybe not but could it fill in some blanks sure!

There's little value in lists and far more effort.

[mahmud]

"Why do people follow" to me does not indicate the presence of a real market for a software product, but a medical product to deal with paranoid narcissistic delusions of grandeur.

Twitter, the next Pfizer acquisition?