I use Twitter a lot and am often frustrated by the lack of quality content. Most tweeting is just babble and self-promotion. Help may be on the way.
Twitter recently launched Lists, which is a tool that allows you to group the people you follow into categories. The benefit is you can reduce the number of people you truly want to follow and avoid the noise created by those that, for whatever reason, are included in you officially Follow.
You can now drill down into the conversations/news that matters to you. Here’s a summary of the benefits I see with Lists:
1. It Saves You Time.
Someone else has already discovered the best people to Follow for your keyword. As you scan the lists you’ll notice that many of them include the same people. That’s OK. That means the crowd has spoken and a consensus was reached.
2. Control Your Followers.
You don’t have to actually Follow all the people on a list. You can just follow a list and dive in occasionally to see what people on your list are tweeting about and then go back to your main feed to see what everyone else you are following are tweeting about.
In the end, you actually gain more control. That’s huge; I Follow almost 1,000 people and have over 1,000 following me, there’s no way I can keep up all the Tweets.
3. Keep It Real
You can create your own lists and set them up as either public or private. There will be times and topics where you want to create your own list. For example, I’m going to create a list of “tweople” in the Lake Wylie, (SC) area.
4. Great New Application – Listorious
There’s a complimentary service that just came out called Listorious. Listorious aggregates the best lists from everyone and lets you use them as a resource. It’s very cool! It was created by Sawhorse Media in New York City and has over 6.5 million lists already. You simply type in a word such as “news,” for example, and the tool delivers you the best lists.
Some of my favorites Lists are:
Linkers: http://listorious.com/palafo/linkers
Thought Leaders: http://listorious.com/kitson/thought-leaders
New Media: http://listorious.com/palafo/newmedia
Great Content: http://listorious.com/Jason_Pollock/great-content
Blogging: http://listorious.com/bloggersblog/blogging
Marketing: http://listorious.com/dannysullivan/marketing
Steve
