Over the past week, Twitter has begun rolling out a highly-anticipated feature called Lists. Sign into your Twitter account and if you see the following message, you can check out this feature for yourself:
Lists are essentially a formalized version of the Groups function in TweetDeck and other Twitter clients. They should be especially useful to anyone following a great number of Twitter users–rather than having to skim your entire stream of recent updates, you can create filters to only show specific users. For example, say I wanted to create a list of CRL and SIM®-related Twitter accounts. I would start by creating the new list:
Next, I go to my list of users I’m following and begin adding users to the list. When I run across one I specify which list to which to add:
My list is accessible to me from my Twitter homepage at any time. I can also share the link with others–here is a list of CRL and/or SIM®-related people on Twitter I’m currently following (you may also opt to make a list private). As usage of lists increases, this will be a good way to discover new people to follow on Twitter.
Look for Twitter clients like Tweetie to add this functionality in the future–in the meantime, use Twitter’s website to create and manage your lists.
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