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Opt in and opt out – Twitter Lists

October 30th, 2009 | Social Networking, Tools


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Seth Godin rocks the blog again with Opt in and opt out. He’s talking of course about how opt in or out should trend in favor of the consumer, be it their safety, well being or finances.  Seth is focused of course on examples like your 401 K, opt in. Why right? Or business choices that are often opt out, but would be better as opt ins.

Let’s look at an Internet example along Twitter lists is going to be a fun feature, but right now it’s not opt anything. If you’re added to a list, or add someone to a list, that’s just the way it is. This will be a problem.

Lists exploded onto the scene and people are frantically working to make their own. I’m already on 53 lists and it’s growing fast. There is no management screen. Listees not only can’t remove themselves, they can’t see at a glance which lists they are on.

No opt-in, no opt-out and no way to easily manage; Lists are going to experience back lash if these options don’t show soon.

Where do you stand? Should lists be opt-in, opt-out, and perhaps even opt-in/out at the list level?

Please take time to click through and read Seth Godin’s inspiring post.

My friend Liz wrote a great post on Twitter Lists 101 Etiquette.

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  • Great post. Really something to think about. I can see where lists could be abused. Unsavory sorts could even use it as a black list although I understand you can block them to be removed from such a list. I spent hours creating my lists & a mere half hour after creating them I wish I hadn't. I like too many people on Twitter to want to include some & exclude others. I may be forced to write my own explanatory post and delete all my lists. Better to have not created them at all or to have kept them private.
  • I don't really see the issue here in regards to twitter lists. Godin's remarks, while interesting, don't seem to apply. Lists in twitter aren't like email lists. its a way of categorizing your existing contacts, exactly the way you can organize facebook friends.

    if you appear on a list, that simply means that someone you let be your friend has decided to make their relationship to you more semantically rich.
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