Twitter Lists

I like them. To me it is like having groups in Digsby or Tweetdeck only online and within Twitter. I don’t like having to go to other sites for Twibes. So it is a convenience thing. No need to open software to read the streams of my favorites. Or if I have a list that is funny then I can open that and read all the tweets from my funny Twitter friends, go straight to the cheer for the day. And if I feel like learning something I have an educational list. Or checking in on the progress (or lack there of) that is going on in our government I have that list.

If I follow over 2000 people then split them up into groups I can also do some cross talk. Knowing in my local group they have most likely talked or tweeted or even met each other at least once it is something we may have in common. An area a shared experience that is locally known.

If I have a list called French and these tweeps all speak French then I can read a stream in a language I am trying to keep up with.

A maybe good maybe not feature is that I can read the streams of like the CNN newscasters without having to follow all of them. Just click on the list and there tweets are right there.

• I would like the option of following the people on the list as well as following the list itself though. Without having to individually follow each person in the list on my own.
• Also I might like to import the lists into other apps, just in case.
• And also use RSS to get to each list.

For portability. Suppose you are out of town or you jump on a public computer. You go to the Twitter homepage and click on your fav list. Your favorite tweeps are right there without having to wade through 10000 tweets to get to your top reads quickly.

Basically the lists are like clicking on the Direct link or the Mentions link. It takes you straight to what you want.

Also for #followfriday I like having the list on Twitter itself. Let people do with it what they will. You can see on your homepage that you are included in certain lists also. So people know that I have them in special places on my Twitter and in my heart… ahhhhh.

List is about Art in Holland then that is what you get. Unless someone seeds their list with advertising.

PS

I suppose you can create a bad list too, like the these tweeps really suck and do nothing but spam list or the these tweeps never responds to anything list,  but that would be mean-right? ‘Cause they can see it on their page…

If I could pick a list to be on it would be Great American Writers list or the Hottie Nerd Programmers in Detroit list. As long as I was in like minded company I will be ok with almost any list I get stuck into.  Be nice

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