"Passively assimilating the people who follow your competitors isn't a bad idea." Good idea. You can get this information from the (un)follow feed from http://

"Passively assimilating the people who follow your competitors isn't a bad idea." Good idea. You can get this information from the (un)follow feed from http://rssfriends.com http://rssfriends.com (here you're also getting users unfollowing, which can be noise, although I think there's an unlisted feed that doesn't show this.) You can also get another feed of those an account starts to follow.