Screen grab of You Both Follow feature

I noticed yesterday that Twitter has added yet another feature for those accessing the site via web browser. When you click on another user’s profile, you are now given a list of people you both follow.

It’s information that has previously been available elsewhere, and apparently it is currently being tested for 10% of Twitter users according to one of the company’s engineers, who has also said it should be available to everyone in a few days.

What’s the point? As with most of Twitter, it’s hard to tell at first, but I quite like it anyway. So far it has mostly highlighted the fact that everyone I follow except for @gordonmacmillan seems to follow Charlie Brooker.

I had a momentary fear that Twitter was about to go all Facebook and start trying to recommend people to you, but it’s not the case.

At the moment the main function is that when you click on the people whose profiles you DON’T follow already you can see if you have friends in common – not a mind-blowing development but useful if you see Twitter as a way to do a bit of marketing for yourself or to start conversations with people you’d like to know.

But if you don’t like change, here’s the Way Back Machine’s archive of the Twitter log in page in January 2007. Now go and have a Marathon, a non pyramid-shaped PG Tips teabag cup of tea and a lie down.