(20-10-2020, 01:53 PM)mcol Wrote: good for finding people

They are certainly good to get you started. Once the network of twtxt users grows, central directories will probably lose meaning (what do you do with thousands of random names?). Instead, keep an eye on your web server log files: Unless turned off, clients will use a specialized user agent to identify themselves. That way, you’ll notice which people are following you. I retrieve a list of user agents regularly to see what’s going on. https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/u...ility.html

This also works for prologic’s twtxt.net now (https://github.com/jointwt/twtxt/issues/244): While they only retrieve your twtxt.txt file *once* even if several users on a pod are following you, they now announce the list of those users in the user agent. So I now get to see something like this:
If it’s more than 5 users, you get a special secret link with short lifetime where you can retrieve the complete list.