Comments on: Twitter introduces lists and becomes a lot more useful

By: Abhishek Khurana

Abhishek Khurana — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:58:08 +0000

I expect them to come up with a feature to temporarily hide the tweets from certain people. I checked out brizzly.com, and they seem to have a best forward-integration of twitter.

By: Dries Grobler

Dries Grobler — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:14:26 +0000

I can’t see anything so I assume only people included on the Beta can. I’ll keep my eye out..

I can see this being VERY useful as my following count keeps climbing bit by bit.

By: zwan

zwan — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:24:46 +0000

Wow! Good News! I agree with you, Twitter has become very noisy along with a lot of spam accounts! This feature is very welcome!
Since I have no access to it yet, can you tell us if it’s like “communities” on Gatorpeeps?

By: Justin Hartman

Justin Hartman — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:21:30 +0000

@Alan I have no idea….

@Ian – I don’t think I understand what you mean about the following back issue?

There is no wrong or right way to use Twitter. Some only follow a select few, others follow everyone who follow them. I’m somewhere inbetween – I checkout all my followers before I follow back. I don’t like to follow spammers for example. With lists I can continue on this strategy but also filter the people I follow.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:17:35 +0000

Isn’t halve the problem with noise this strange habit of following those who follow you. I follow you because you are interesting and then I got a request to follow me back – which I found strange. Why did you do that? (I declined your request)

Now with lists you will be able to put those you want to follow into a list. And those who you don’t want to follow will be in another list. If you follow me …

Shouldn’t you just be following your friends only in the first place?

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:09:17 +0000

Looks really great. Wonder how long they will keep it in Beta for?

By: Justin Hartman

Justin Hartman — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:02:09 +0000

Interesting that you mention trying to get 3rd party app users back to the site. Reason being, @stii noticed that Twitter haven’t got any API documentation on the lists functionality yet they have “other” documentation for upcoming API features.

Makes me wonder now if this list functionality is going to be released to 3rd party developers or not.

I’d hope they do because I still prefer desktop applications to clicking refresh on a page…

By: Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:43:31 +0000

TG they finally caught up….most of the apps – Tweetdeck / Seesmic etc have offered grouping options for quite a while.

Makes a huge diff when you’re trying to listen to a specific few in the crowd. I suspect twitter will continue to innovate their web interface to attract the 3rd party App users back.