I'm addicted to Twitter and it is ruining my blog. I've lost interest in writing more than 140 characters at a time. But at last I'm back in order to write a longer missive. About Twitter, of course.

Here's what I just discovered... the Twitter search feature has been disabled due to abuse... so as I searched around I found these handy work arounds, enjoy! (p.s. I found these here: http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/people_search_has_been_disabled)

Alternatives for User Search that might help in the meantime:

1. To search by topic, try http://search.twitter.com

2. To find friends through the address book of your webmail account, try http://twitter.com/invitations

The above are Twitter features. There are also third-party services that may help:

3. To search by name or bio, try http://twitdir.com or http://tweetscan.com/usersearch.php or http://twellow.com

4. To search by location, try http://twitterlocal.net

5. To search by profession, try http://twitterpacks.pbwiki.com

6. To search for companies that use Twitter, try http://www.socialbrandindex.com/twitter