Twitter Lists – Curate Your Favorite Twitter Users

Twitter gets Lists and you become the curator

Twitter announced on their blog a new Lists feature.  Nick Kallen (@nk) explains what the idea is as

… to allow people to curate lists of Twitter accounts. For example, you could create a list of the funniest Twitter accounts of all time, athletes, local businesses, friends, or any compilation that makes sense.

Lists Features

• Created by the users
• Unique to the user creating it
• Others can subscribe to your List

Lists Why

Nick shared the reason behind Twitter Lists:

We started working on this feature because of the frequent requests we received from people who were looking for a better way to organize information on Twitter.

Lists already provided via tweepml.org for example have the same features.  Those services aren’t integrated via API to Twitter yet.  It appears Twitter will open it up shortly.

Twitter Lists for Everyone

• What will your lists be?
• Will you build short lists?
• Will you use a list to pimp out your friends or act as curator of the best of the best Twitter users?
• What will be your first list?
• What lists would you be interested in subscribing to?

Cheers to the Twitter team on a long awaited feature.

Todd aka @tojosan

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Tags: Application programming interface, curate, Lists, Nick Kallen, Online Communities, Social Networking, Twitter, user lists