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Pretty cool. Do you have any particular use-cases in mind? I could imagine it rolled into a bigger suite of social media management tools for brands. It could help them follow the people who follow them on other channels or something. Not sure about the consumer use-case, though.

Thanks! Not sure who would use it :P It was just a fun project. But I do think there should exist such a service which aggregates and organises all social accounts.

Cool - just curious (not playing devils advocate, I really don't know) how does this do a better job than say a Google or Twitter search?

You can't get all social profile links with google for celebrities : Eg: See this

https://www.google.co.in/#q=barack+obama

Also for doing user searches in social websites, I don't get the results I am looking for:

Eg for query "Barack Obama" from Facebook graph api: I get :

{

  "data": [

    {

      "name": "Chi Linh Bui",
      "id": "248865755297304"
    },
    {
      "name": "Barack Obamanana",
      "id": "318956448258150"
    },
    {
      "name": "Barack Obamalad",
      "id": "1378793772451152"
    },
    {
      "name": "Barack ObamaObama",
      "id": "239939292867248"
    },

....

Screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tbqmo5tzospcnsc/Screenshot%202015-...

It dies when I search with a name containing umlauts.

Is that a celebrity name ?

It can be in a celebrity name. It's just a character that breaks the site.

Umlauts are the two dots above a letter, quite common in German I believe.

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