Twitter introduced the list feature a few weeks ago and announced it on their blog on October 30. I saw it on my twitter profile some time around October 20 and was adding people to lists I’ve set up until it became tedious. Please excuse me if I have not gotten you into a list. I’ll get around to listing everyone soon.
I like that I can put the people I follow into lists so whenever I needed answers to technical question, I could look up my “geekeratti” list and tweet them, for example. I would like it even more if I could send @ messages or DMs only to the people on one list. Can’t do it yet but until then, it’s still a good tagging system. If you’re unsure of what lists to create, perhaps I can help. Here’s what I have:
For people I think everyone should follow in October, they are in my @thechannelc/vip-october:
For people who would likely not add me back, I put them into my @thechannelc/follow-back-chance-is-nil:
BTW, Chris B is not on my follow list anymore but the tag I have set up for him is still there. I really don’t care whether he follows me back.
For people who usually don’t reply tweets, I have them in my @thechannelc/doesnt-reply-tweets:
Lists can be a lot of fun. When you add someone to a list or two, it shows up on their profile. They can also see which of your list/s you’ve put them into:
And did you know you can add yourself to your own list?:
Finally, lists can be set to private and no one but you can see them. This is good if you want to create a private “pain-in-the-ass” or a “jerk” list. Remember though that if someone who could make your life difficult is on the PITA list, triple check that it’s set to private.
