Time for another information gathering exercise - Will it be useful / interesting? If so, make your request below!

A piece of advice I often hand out to new starters is to follow the tags they use and check out who is posting in their subject areas of interest. At present, without the activity levels we saw at the beginning of last year, it shouldn't be that hard to get to know who is a regular in your favourite tags. The reason I suggest this is that I think that a well-timed and interesting comment on their work gives the new recruit visibility and from that, the possibility of a visit from authors who may well be interested in their work. There is also a chance that other commentators will see and read this comment, and as they are visiting this blog then they could well see knowledge in the subject area and pay a visit too.

So that's one method of finding people with common interests, what else have we got?

As far as I know (but I could be wrong), but I don't think there is a web application that gives you details of who has Resteemed (and consistently liked) the same content as you. As I'm writing this, I'm wondering if this metric could be used as a follow/friend suggestion, a bit like what is seen on busy.org:

_{busy.org showing me some 'interesting' people, based on.... errr....}

Hey, this account has Resteemed 10 posts that you have also, maybe they like the same content as you?

Could be more interesting?

So that's my reasoning for hacking away with some code this evening. A reasonably simple self-join on the table in SteemSQL called 'Reblogs' - where all our Resteems are housed.

My 30 Resteemers in common

Resteemer in common	Count
riseofth	98
paulag	56
glenalbrethsen	46
acidyo	39
fulltimegeek	33
angelacs	31
aggroed	29
carlgnash	29
ausbitbank	28
plushzilla	28
scorer	27
steem-top	27
yasu24	26
c-squared	25
lyndsaybowes	24
mediahousent	24
meno	24
davemccoy	23
v4vapid	23
beeyou	22
callahan	22
kafkanarchy84	20
palikari123	20
steevc	20
waybeyondpadthai	20
apolymask	19
clayboyn	19
steemitqa	19
anomadsoul	18
anthonyadavisii	18

So most of these accounts I recognize at least, but many I don't visit often enough to gauge if they are Resteeming (enjoying?!) the same content as me.

I'm not sure Ginabot is ready, or indeed if we are, for a:

X has Resteemed a Post that you Resteemed too!

But some script working behind the scenes to present your Resteemers in common could be something to present on a UI somewhere?

Alright then, who wants a table as per the above? And what are the chances you'll go see what the accounts in common are up to content-wise?

If this helps even one person make a connection with someone who has similar interests I'll be happy :)

Cheers!

Asher