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By: Blake Waddill

Blake Waddill — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:58:48 +0000

@liz – It’s all good. I had to re-read what I said 2 or 3 times to make sense of it too.

Typing like I talk gets me in trouble sometimes.

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:47:50 +0000

I didn’t read your message that you were going to group talkative people together on one list, I thought you were saying they’d each have their own list. Sorry for the confusion.

By: Blake Waddill

Blake Waddill — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:30:49 +0000

It would be crazy and pointless to only put a single person on a list. It would also be pointless to have a list of 150+ people because you just can’t keep in close contact with that many people.

I was suggesting putting very active tweeters like Chris Brogan, Guy, and Problogger in the same list and putting people who only tweet 5 or 10 times a day in a list.

I think that would provide a nice mix of tweets instead of everyone being drowned out in the noise.

Great point about why duplicate lists others have made. Finding good lists hasn’t been easy so far, but I think when lists are available to everyone, there will be far more lists worth following (thus allowing you to save your lists for… other lists?)

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:20:37 +0000

It’s crazy to have a list with just one user on it. You can just go to their profile page & read their Tweets which is the same as a one person list. You only get 20 lists…I’ve already used mine up.

Plus, why duplicate lists that someone else has created? I was going to put together of people who work at Twitter (I follow a lot of them) but there are dozens of these lists. It’s easy to follow other people’s lists. I found a great one someone put together of indie music artists on Twitter. Why recreate the wheel?

By: Tara

Tara — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:56:42 +0000

Hi there. I have four Twitter accounts and last week I noticed that one of them had lists enabled so I decided to create one for “Who creative entrepreneurs should follow on Twitter” (Here’s a longer explanation: http://ow.ly/w70l)

It’s fine now because there are less than 10 people on it, but I haven’t solved the problem of scale yet.

For the problem of noise … I was using groups in Tweetdeck before there were lists. Now I’m using Hootsuite and you can create columns for groups, but there is still the problem of noise if you group sqwakers with whisperers.

Don’t know yet how to solve that.

Thinking …

By: Christina Sawyer

Christina Sawyer — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:36:14 +0000

I am not on twitter but it is probably something that can be applied to LOTS of areas! Kind of a scary though how your name and info gets pulled all around unsolicited.

By: Gabe | freebloghelp.com

Gabe | freebloghelp.com — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:47:16 +0000

I haven’t used Lists yet but it’s a good head’s up. For many of us, it’s going to take a little experimenting to get the whole lists thing down to a reasonable noise level.

By: Blake Waddill

Blake Waddill — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:38:39 +0000

That’s a good point Jan! I started thinking a little more about other uses for Twitter besides content marketing after my last reply.

You point further solidifies why I can’t really justify having a huge number of people on a single list. Unless you’re keeping track of your graduating class or the people who comment on your blog, I just can’t justify having more than 30-40 people on a list.

By: Pallab

Pallab — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:32:34 +0000

It seems twitter has decided to expand its Lists beta. I also got access to Lists today.