Twitter Lists

Nov 4, 2009

I took a screenshot of the Twitter lists following me at the moment.  Undoubtedly, the “listed” number will be used as another metric of social influence, but that’s not what I find intriguing.  It’s the self-curated/created nature of lists that I like.  It’s been insightful, humbling and amusing to see what lists I’m added to.  It’s also a great way to discover new users to follow. Every self-curated list creates another taxonomy to the wide world of Twitter.  I’ve got to find some time to make more lists of my own. Full screenshot below.

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  1. Nov 5, 2009 Abizer says:

    You can add people that you don’t follow to lists. I’ve started one for spam followers.

    This serves two purposes IMHO. Firstly, it instantly registers what you think of a spammer who follows you, secondly, it might go someway to offsetting the lists that spammers create to follow each other just to get a high list count.

  2. Nov 5, 2009 Emily Chang says:

    @Abizer – why don’t you just report them as spam? This notifies Twitter that their account is spam, and blocks them from following you. Just click the action menu to “report as spam”.

  3. Nov 5, 2009 Abizer says:

    @Emily. I do both. :)

  4. Nov 5, 2009 Dorai Thodla says:

    I agree about the new taxonomy. It will be great to explore your friends lists and the ones they are listed in. I think this may be another great way for self-classification of the people-web.

    Dorai

  5. Nov 4, 2009 socialmediajs says:

    110409 Twitter Lists http://bit.ly/31IUTG #news #socialmedia

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  6. Nov 4, 2009 Alltop_Social says:

    110409 Twitter Lists http://bit.ly/I4xFp
    Social-Media.alltop

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  7. Nov 4, 2009 AggieGreiter says:

    110409 Twitter Lists http://bit.ly/1vE0cD

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  8. Nov 5, 2009 stephen_henault says:

    @EmilyChang – succinctly nailed it with this post ’bout Twitter Lists: http://bit.ly/2S6GwV. check it -

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  9. Nov 5, 2009 thatwaszen says:

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  10. Nov 5, 2009 dorait says:

    “Every self-curated list creates another taxonomy to the wide world of Twitter ” http://bit.ly/2js9pc – I agree.

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This is the personal site of Emily Chang, designer and co-founder of Ideacodes, specializing in web, UI, UX, IxD. Also an entrepreneur, webling, geek, blogger, surfer. Likes robots. More...

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