I'm not entirely certain what people will use the new Twitter lists service for, but I can of course speak for myself. Personally, I intend to use it as a kind of filtering tool, so that I can click on my specific list and hopefully see tweets that are grouped around a particular community of interest of practice. In creating this app, Twitter are merely doing what other services have already done quite successfully, including TweepML and Listorious. The only difference is that Twitter has integrated this into the side bar of its own home page, so that you can see all the Twitter lists you have yourself created, and click on them to quickly access your lists. At the moment, Twitter is polling those it has selected to test out the Beta version of the app. The results of the poll show that 17% intend to use it to find and follow other like-minded people. To find out more and receive updates live from Twitter, you should follow Nick Kallen who is @nk
Some will complain that Twitter lists are elitist. Others will welcome them with open arms, pick up the ball and start running with it. Most I suspect will shrug their shoulders and say - so what? Until of course, they spot that they are included in other people's lists, and perhaps their following is increasing. Twitter lists I predict, will consolidate many people's following numbers, and coalesce communities of interest together in a more coherent and usable way. We shall see if I'm right. In the meantime, here's an excellent video showing how to use Twitter Lists.
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I like the idea of Twitter lists helping to coalesce communities of practice. I suspect it will only really come into its own if/when lists are accessible from third-party Twitter applications, like Twhirl, Tweetie, & Tweetdeck. Casual users might be happy using the web site, but heavy users probably use a client (and for good reasons). I'm keen to see how it all works out.
I don't know yet if Twitter lists will replace TweetDeck for me but I like their potential.
What's equally interesting to me is seeing other people's lists...It's interesting to discover who other people find interesting in certain fields/topics - in part to learn more about them and in part because of the opportunity to discover new new folks to follow as a result.
I don't know yet if Twitter lists will replace TweetDeck for me but I like their potential.
What's equally interesting to me is seeing other people's lists...It's interesting to discover who other people find interesting in certain fields/topics - in part to learn more about them and in part because of the opportunity to discover new new folks to follow as a result.
I'm less interested in these lists of "top edubloggers" or "cool celebrities"-- I can see lists for project teams, classes, ones for conferences to gather tweets based on users rather than tags...
What I've been curious, and have not tried, is if you can make lists of lists, since they act like users you can follow.
Say you have lists for 3 chemistry classes, then you could make a meta list that includes the 3, and then the university might make a meta meta list of all department lists, and then.... the world implodes
So now there may be a reason to actually use the twitter.com site - unless you are happy that groups do the "list" work for you in tweetdeck/seesmic desktop etc. There is added value in the list management, and the ability to track who has you on a list.
If Tweetdeck etc "groups" can be exported as Twitter "lists" (which I suspect will be the case) and if Tweetdeck imports "lists" as "groups" (which almost certainly will be the case) then I (and maybe other) Tweetdeck users will be content.
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