Twitter Lists, What Are They?

On October 30th, 2009, which was some few days ago, Twitter made a new feature available to all Twitter users. This new feature is called Twitter lists.

So what are Twitter lists?

Twitter lists are a way of grouping Twitter users you are interested in and this can include Twitter users you are following and those you are not following, for example friends, family members, classmates, etc. The Twitter list of the people you are interested in will showcase the latest tweets of those people. Any Twitter user can follow a Twitter list and when the person does it doesn’t mean he or she is individually following all the Twitter users on that particular Twitter list but he or she is rather following the Twitter list as a whole meaning he or she is following the Twitter list only and not any Twitter user in that list.

An example of a Twitter list is the Twitter team list which was created by Twitter themselves. Also a Twitter list can be public or private.

A public Twitter list is a list which can be seen by anyone. When I say anyone I mean anyone on the internet who goes to the page of the Twitter list will be able to see it.

A private Twitter list is a list which can only be seen by the creator of that particular Twitter list. Not even those listed in that particular Twitter list can see the list, it’s only the creator. So it’s a secret list.

So far at the time of this writing my personal Twitter account @shirleyszone and Shirley’s Tech Zone’s Twitter account @ShirleysTechZ have both been added to three Twitter lists each by other Twitter users. I haven’t created a list in @shirleyszone or @ShirleysTechZ yet. I think I will be doing that soon.

 

So have you created any Twitter lists? Or have you been added to any Twitter lists? Please share it with us in the comments field. Thanks :).

 

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