Twitter Team List

As it is new, it has thrown many of those into SEO, and marketing into a spin. My view is that lists are there for the Twitter members, not for the marketers. At this moment many of us have produced lists. I find them refreshing, as they enable me to find many new Tweeple. I foresee that many lists will be created and followed. However, being listed on a large number of Public Lists may not be an accurate measure of popularity. If my favourite lists are my private ones, then how many other Twitter members will also have private lists as their most used. There will be no statistics for being on someone’s Private List.

I feel that the follower count as a measure of credibility is dead, but the number of listings is also likely to be unreliable as the most important listings could well be on Private Lists. It is also obvious to me that, there is absolutely no point in following anyone who will not follow you back.  Following and being Followed allows the members to exchange DM’s, it is not needed to read someone’s Tweets.

I suspect that many will follow Public Lists and in doing so find Tweeple we like to follow and perhaps  include them in our own private lists. We might then stop following that Public  List. An exception to this would be Lists that are revised constantly through interaction by the Curator of that list or by feedback from followers.

Improving Lists

The Twitter Application, Twibes provides the means to read Tweets from a group of Twitter Members on a specific theme or subject. Only Tweets containing one of three keywords gets posted in the Twibe stream. Currently the negative feature of Twibes is that there is no list function therefore you have to take read every Twibe members Tweets as long as they contain  a keyword. Twibes will be integrating with lists, so this likely to be addressed. So, what does this mean for Twitter? In my own case I Tweet on at least three different topics but followers of my Tweets may only be interested in one of the topics. It would be great if there was a way of filtering a List Stream by keywords. I am not sure how practical that would be. Perhaps someone could comment and let me know?

Twitter – the Future

These are my current views. I’m sure they will evolve with Twitter. Where do you see the future, especially with Google Wave being rolled out?

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