Twitters new feature “twitter lists“  is incredibly exciting if you are one of the twitter users who have been chosen to test the beta version. BUT for those who haven’t had the thrill of logging in to your twitter homepage and having the list banner appear above the twitter feed  you are probably wondering what all the buzz is about. More importantly there are probably 2 questions you have on the tip of your tongue…  What can twitter lists do? and What can’t twitter lists do? Well this is where a little social traffic espionage comes in handy…

Lets start by listing a few of the things that twitter lists can’t do.

  1. You can only add 20 lists to one Twitter account and a  list can only have 500 members.
  2. Your sidebar can only display 20 lists. So if you have more than 20 lists you will be only able to see the last 20 lists.
  3. You are not able to  control the order of the lists or really anything about the list.
  4. The tab that shows you the lists you follow doesn’t allow you to scroll down. So you will only see the lists that can fit in this space.

While not a comprehensive list it gives you some idea of  what twitter lists can’t do. Like any new beta testing feature you gotta expect some bugs and querks.

Don’t worry we havent forgotten about what twitter lists can do, we will have a look at “What twitter lists can do?” in a future blog post.

Have we missed something?  If you would like to add something to this post leave a comment and stay tuned as we  continue to update you with more information about twitter lists.