1. Twitter Lists
Presented by Andrew Hart
1 November 2009
2. Twitter 101
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging
service that enables its users to send and read messages
known as tweets .
SMS of the Internet
Tweet Content: News, spam, self-promotion, nonsense,
conversation
Technology:
Simple interface.
Web-based Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.
Open API:
Applications: social networking, politics, news, protest,
public relations
Quickly becoming one of the most popular websites.
3. Twitter Lists
"Group" feature: Organize the people you’re following on
Twitter, and find new people.
Snapshot of the things those users are saying by viewing
that list’s page, which includes a complete tweet stream for
everyone on the list.
Other Twitter users can then subscribe to your lists. This
means lists have the potential to be an important new
discovery mechanism for great tweets and accounts.
4.
5. List Applications
Organize those that you follow (e.g. family, friends, work,
media, education, news, entertainment, sports, politics).
Share those you follow with others.
Follow those that you ARE NOT following.
6. HOW TO: Create a List
1. Sign in to Twitter
2. Click “New List” in your Twitter sidebar.
7. HOW TO: Create a List
3. Enter a name for the list. (See next screen shot.)
4. Select Public or Private, depending if you want to share your
list or not.
5. Click Create List.
8. HOW TO: Create a List
Add people to the list:
1. Go to a person’s page either by searching, entering URL or
clicking the name from within Twitter.
2. Click "Lists".
3. Select the checkbox(es) to add the person to list(s).
9. HOW TO: Create a List
Screencast: How to Create Lists in Twitter (Closed-Captioned)
10. HOW TO: Follow Lists
People you follow
Listorious
TweetMeme Lists
11. Lists of Note
Kathy Gill's Lists
Robert Scoble’s Most Influential In Tech
NewMedia
Best of Photography
The Onion Editorial Staff
12. Questions for consideration
Do you use Twitter lists?
If not, is Twitter more appealing now because of the Lists
feature?
Does Twitter Lists make feed readers obsolete? [via
Scobleizer and boy, for a gunman you're one hell of a
pessimist.
What potential does Lists create for a new Twitter revenue
model?
13. Works Cited
Twitter on Wikipedia
Is Twitter Replacing the RSS Reader?
Scobleizer
HOW TO: Use Twitter Lists
Listorious
Get Organized With Twitter Lists
