Twitter Dev: Rockin’ da Lists Hard!

Written by: Terry Van Horne | November 12, 2009

Generally I’m not a big fanboy of the Twitter development team, management’s business capabilities/acumen, or a believer that twitter is much more than the future property of one of the big boys!
Twitter lists are the first truly great development to come from this team in a while. They are bringing the functionality of  Tweetdeck groups to Twitter. 
Anne Smarty did a post on the uses for twitter lists. Although these are useful for promotion (nothing wrong with that) the benefit of lists to users are many fold. As a developer I can think of 1/2 doz. things on the promotion side but I’d have to kill ya’ if I shared those.

Ways to Use Twitter Lists

1. The obvious… for categorizing those you follow making it less likely tweets are missed.
2. In a busy timeline it’s easy to miss tweets, so put new followers into a list before following them. Then if you decide to block or pass on following they were never followed so no excuse or embarassment for unfollowing them is incurred. Personally, I block, seldom unfollow… only Eddie…
3. Again using the ability to follow anonymously, follow competitors! One of the things I don’t get is how people are making it super easy to know more about what they are doing then they do.
4. Move undesirables to a list and unfollow this way if they talk smack you have sources for collecting, in the words of MR. Hainey,  ”legal like documents”.
5. Identifying bots by the  number of lists they are on
6. Mass DM like a mailing list (Not positive)
7. Segregating RT addicts
8. Creating useful lists will increase your visibility
9. List will be used in determining the true influence of a Follower
10. Myself and peeps I Follow sometimes use cuss language, obviously that doesn’t bother me but I sometimes wonder about the users reading the timeline, I enjoy these personal tweets… others may not.

So, I have done a blogging first! I’ve done a “List Post” and I won’t include that in the title… simply because I think some people do list posts because they’ve run out of ideas.  My excuse is it was part of another post that was monstrous.#jussayin

Why the three Stooges pic? Cuz Curly is the coolest! Twitter dev and management reminds of the “best of the boys”. Chaos and mayhem everywhere.

CiYaAtdaTop!
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