Sunday 8 November 2009

Twitter Lists 101

What is a Twitter List

A list is a grouping of twitter users , you can decide the name of the group and who is in it.

You can make it public , in which case every other twitter user on the planet can see it , or you can keep it private.

You can have up to 20 lists , you can have 500 people on each list.


From Twitter HQ

We are expanding availability of Lists to 5 percent of users and will work our way up to a full roll-out in the coming weeks.



Who can benefit from using lists ... Everyone who users twitter , it makes it easy to follow groups of people tweeting in real time.

If you follow a lot of people .. You can create upto 20 lists to organize the people you are following ..

If you do not follow a lot of people ... you can follow other peoples lists as well a create one of your own.


To follow a list goto the users profile ..

On the right hand side of their twitter.com web page you will see a list of lists they have created. Select one




And press follow this list ..

The list will then appear on the right hand side of your twitter.com homepage.

There are two lists you can follow straight away

Mine :)

Great People





BT TradeSpace SMEs




To create your own list .. visit the profile you wish to add to your list




You can see the dropdown to the right of the green following tick , so select new list (at the bottom) Give the list a name .

You have created your first list.


You can add people to the list smply by visiting their profiles .. use search to find people

And from your own Twitter page you can see the lists you are featured in





Happy Listing .. follow the #listguru tag for tips

1 comment:

Unknown said...

This is pretty informative thanks