Twitter Lists - What Can They Do?
Twitter Lists are a hot topic, in a previous post we looked at what twitter lists can’t do…In this post we will discuss Twitter Lists - What Can They Do? and Why you would use Twitter Lists?
1. Twitter Lists are dynamic and much more than a static listings of users. Twitter Lists are categorized twitter streams of the latest tweets from the users on a list.
2. Twitter Lists give you the ability to organize the people you’re following on Twitter, or find new people.
3. Each Twitter list has a list page where you can get a snapshot of the Twitter list users tweets which are included in a complete tweet stream for everyone on the list.
4. Make following people easier. For instance when you find a twitterite who has an awesome list you will beable to add the whole list.
5. Twitter Lists give you the opportunity to follow people using a Twitter list without following them as an individual. So…you can view their tweets without actually following them. In this way Twitter Lists that you belong to can include people you’re not following.
6. Searching for twitterites with similar interests will be so much easier using the twitter list features.
Twitter Lists why would you use them?
Not sure about why you would use a Twitter List? Don’t worry here are a few ideas to get you started
- Create a Group
Use Twitter Lists to organize your tweeps into groups based on anything you want. For example, podcasting, cats lovers, golfing enthusiasts. When you view a list, you easily see all of the tweets of the list members. - Recommend Your Favorite Tweeple
Twitter Lists were designed to allow people to recommend other users to follow. Simply create a public list of people you think other Twitter users should follow, then anyone else can visit that list and follow the people on it (or follow the list). - Follow People You Aren’t Following
By following a Twitter List, you’re actually following the entire list not each user on the list. So… you can use Twitter Lists to follow people without really following them. How does this work? Well say for instance that there are users whose tweets you’d like to follow, but you don’t want in your main Twitter stream, you can add them to a list and then check their latest tweets when you want to by viewing your list.
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January 6th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
[...] 4. So What DO you do? Make sure your bio includes what you do. People use Twitter for lots of different reasons, however the networking and business twitterites follow people based on what they do and their topics of interest. This aspect of your bio is even more important since the launch of Twitter lists, since most people when building lists use the information in peoples bios to build a specific Twitter List. [...]