Twitter Lists

Presented by Andrew Hart1 November 2009

Twitter 101

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets .SMS of the Internet Tweet Content: News, spam, self-promotion, nonsense, conversationTechnology:

Simple interface.Web-based Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.Open API:

Applications: social networking, politics, news, protest, public relations Quickly becoming one of the most popular websites.

Twitter Lists

"Group" feature: Organize the people you’re following on Twitter, and find new people.Snapshot of the things those users are saying by viewing that list’s page, which includes a complete tweet stream for everyone on the list.Other Twitter users can then subscribe to your lists. This means lists have the potential to be an important new discovery mechanism for great tweets and accounts.

List Applications

Organize those that you follow (e.g. family, friends, work, media, education, news, entertainment, sports, politics).Share those you follow with others.Follow those that you ARE NOT following.

HOW TO: Create a List

1. Sign in to Twitter 2. Click “New List” in your Twitter sidebar.

HOW TO: Create a List

3. Enter a name for the list. (See next screen shot.)4. Select Public or Private, depending if you want to share your list or not.5. Click Create List.

HOW TO: Create a List

Add people to the list:1. Go to a person’s page either by searching, entering URL or

clicking the name from within Twitter.2. Click "Lists".3. Select the checkbox(es) to add the person to list(s).

HOW TO: Create a List

Screencast: How to Create Lists in Twitter (Closed-Captioned)

HOW TO: Follow Lists

People you followListoriousTweetMeme Lists

Lists of Note

Kathy Gill's Lists Robert Scoble’s Most Influential In TechNewMediaBest of PhotographyThe Onion Editorial Staff

Questions for consideration

Do you use Twitter lists?If not, is Twitter more appealing now because of the Lists feature?Does Twitter Lists make feed readers obsolete? [via Scobleizer and boy, for a gunman you're one hell of a pessimist.What potential does Lists create for a new Twitter revenue model?

Works Cited

Twitter on Wikipedia Is Twitter Replacing the RSS Reader? ScobleizerHOW TO: Use Twitter ListsListoriousGet Organized With Twitter Lists