I spoke with the wonderful ladies of Topeka's Association for Women in Communications about Twitter and Facebook in the job hunt, and some favorite power-tools for Twitter junkies. As promised, here are links to some of the best tools I've found for tracking trends and finding folks to follow.
Trends
www.hashtags.org - Track hashtags on Twitter
www.twitscoop.com - View a tag cloud of Twitter topics, complete with timeline graphs.
www.microplaza.com - See top stories on Twitter, filtered by your followers
www.google.com/trends - See trends for search queries