So, what are twitter lists?

Heather Townsend — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:04:46 +0000

There are lots of questions tonight on twitter about lists… and what they are, and how you use them…

Very simply, twitter has added a neat bit of functionality which allows you to group your followers into lists. Twitter has just rolled out this functionality to all twitter users.

To find out how many lists you have been included on – a good measure of how engaged you are with your followers, then look at your followers and following stats – there will be a new figure – ‘lists’.

If you click on your lists number you will see who has added you to a list. For example, I like working with accountants, so have started a list called great accountants.

You may be thinking so what… well if you want to follow accountants too, you can with one click you can watch everyones tweets on this list. To illustrate this, I found that I was on a list called thames valley businesses. Since I want to connect with local businesses, I with one click followed the list. 161 within my target group that I can watch their tweets… result!

Creating a list is very slow, you have to add people 1 by 1. I’m hoping that a few twitter applications will appear shortly which will speed up the process of creating & finding lists.

If you are wondering why I haven’t created many lists… I’ve a very slow internet connection tonight, and will create lots of lovely lists next week.

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So, what are twitter lists?