Twitter Relaunches Find People

Want to see if your friends, family, or colleagues are on Twitter? Now you can through the microblogging tool’s re-launched people search, which lets you query the service by username or first/last name to find other users. The feature had been taken down earlier this year when Twitter was experiencing significant downtime issues.
In addition to helping you find people, or simply see whether or not you’re the most popular Pete, Adam, or Stan on the service, the search interface integrates Twitter’s invite tool that lets you email your friends about Twitter.

Part of that tool is an address book import which will show you which of your contacts are already on Twitter so you can follow them. That feature’s also not new, but when included with Twitter’s now prominent people search, it could give yet another viral boost to the service.
Best of all, all of these features, at press time, are loading extremely fast, lending more credibility to the notion that Twitter’s performance issues are behind it. You can check out people search from here or from the new “Find People” link that has been added to Twitter’s main navigation menu.

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