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Twitter People You May Know ?
I could think of following ways this was possible:
1. Perhaps you imported your email address book in the past which Twitter cached. and now that your friend joined, they sent you an email (or may be your friend imported their address book)
This was the main motivation behind Facebook acquisition of Octazen I believe. http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/19/octazen-what-the-heck-did-facebook-just-buy-exactly-and-why/
2. Some signals indicating that you may know each other - your friend visiting your profile often. near by location. http://data.linkedin.com/projects/pymk 3. http://lifehacker.com/5911389/twitter-is-tracking-you-on-the-web-heres-what-you-can-do-to-stop-it
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