Comments on: Twitter Lists Good? Bad? Ugly?

By: June O'Reilly

June O'Reilly — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:14:26 +0000

I have no time for lists you see, I swim in the stream consistently for all to see. and if I went and made some lists so much stuff I would have missed :( Twitter is the here and now unlike FB where you just see true interacting there is rare for me but Twitter brings it home as talking around the world you roam.

By: SocialBlogr

SocialBlogr — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:14:01 +0000

I use list to grouping my friends. So I can easily check their updates. :P

By: davidperel

davidperel — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:01:55 +0000

That is rather shocking they just don't get it. I think too many of us hold ourselves in too high regard. Some people need a reality check.

By: Paddy

Paddy — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:43:48 +0000

It's a nice way of organising the people you follow, for sure, but then I only follow a small manageable number of people. I agree with Chris Brogan though, it's also excludes people and you end up with problems like you've been having, with people asking 'why am I not on your list?'.

Another problem I have is having a list with more than around 20 people on it. These lists that float around with 300 people on it are insanely noisy and useless. It's like these '400+ web designers to follow on Twitter' blog posts that used to be all the rage. No one could ever have the time to sit and go through every person on it.

Tweetdeck? Yeugh. I tried using it for a day but there was waaaay too much going on at once. Felt like I was in control of a plane. Tweetie is where you want to go. Far sexier and more usable.

By: rogermbyrne

rogermbyrne — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:38:48 +0000

I think the value comes in many ways as you have more and more followers or search columns or twitter accounts to monitor, but I think everyone is finding their feet and will see if lists are useful to them or not, this technique is just an experiment who knows what next week will bring!

About being on the list really I know you're joking but I got people who said Sorry I can't retweet that because so and so isn't on it and it will cause me trouble...

Unbelievable!

By: davidperel

davidperel — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:34:02 +0000

I haven't made any lists yet as I am not the kind of person who 'organises' my links, so organising my followers / people I follow will be tough.

I do see value in it for people who are looking to find a good group of people to follow in their niche, but I can see the issues which can crop up. For now I am just going to see how it goes, if I really feel a need then I will start playing around with lists.

p.s Why am I not on your design list? ;) joking mate

By: rogermbyrne

rogermbyrne — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:33:05 +0000

@Paddy I agree its too difficult right now but hopefully some of the desktop clients will change that, also agree its a bit of a contest but my lists apart from 2 are private for me to use (and whats the influence of being on 1000 lists if no one follows any of those lists? so the number is irrelevant as any kind of measure ), In the end they are not much different from tweetdeck groups really but with using the twitter api hopefully easier to manage and the possibility to share…

By: Paddy

Paddy — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:02:57 +0000

Too much work to create them in my opinion. I took the time to create one. It took a while to do and I haven't been back to look at it since, or anyone else's for that matter.

Also it's opened up this whole other 'How many lists are you on?' culture, which is just horrible. What's next? Twitter Groups? Twitter Teams?

Meh.

By: DlibrarieD

DlibrarieD — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:58:07 +0000

Think it is still better to have that option. Atleast it`s a good way to manage accounts. You can still personally follow people if it matters. But you can manage galleries or museums, news etc. Like that.

By: sayzlim

sayzlim — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:53:32 +0000

I use list to determine if I should follow someone. And I made the private friend list to monitor what my friend doing without following them (since not all of them tweet like a human). Overall, it is a nice new feature…