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Hashable breaks the ice with Twitter intros

By | October 12, 2010, 9:17am PDT

You meet people in real life all the time, but sometimes keeping track of them online is a tricky operation. Hashable is trying to solve this problem with a social stream of your real world connections.

The primary feature of Hashable is the ability to tweet an introduction between two people.

Once you’ve connected two people, you earn points and reputation.

When you intro two people, Hashable sets up a “Ice Breaker” page for the two parties to visit and see a few quick facts about each other, including followers in common.

Since you connect to Hashable with Twitter’s API, you can track any interactions with people you have on Twitter. Even Foursquare checkins work too.

I think this is a pretty cool site, and whenever I want to introduce two people, I’ll definitely use this. Every intro should be a quick as a tweet. Anything longer will lose someone’s attention.

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Andrew Mager is a hacker advocate at Spotify in New York City.

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Andrew Mager works for Spotify.

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Andrew Mager

Andrew Mager is a hacker advocate at Spotify in New York City. Before moving to NY, Andrew worked at SimpleGeo & Ning in San Francisco. Previously, he was an associate technical producer at CBS Interactive. Andrew studied print & electronic journalism at Virginia Tech, where he created a student-run online news publication called Planet Blacksburg.

In 2006, Andrew interned at ESPN in Bristol, CT, working for the Sports Production team doing Javascript and SQL experiments. Prior to that, he worked at the WSLS-TV NBC 10 in Roanoke, VA, as a web intern. In his freshman year of college, Andrew worked at the local ESPN Radio station answering phone calls and writing scripts for the local afternoon talk show.

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