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HOW TO: Create Groups for Twitter

Source: Mashable!

Feb 15, 2009

Summary

One of the most demanded features for Twitter has been the ability to create groups, allowing members to focus on different sets of people they’re following. For example, you could create groups for all of your fantasy league friends, colleagues at work, friends in real life, family members, and so on.

Because Twitter still does not provide any group feature, it has opened the floodgates for countless third party solutions. There are many different ways Twitter members can create virtual groups. Here is a roundup of some of the most popular methods employed today.

Have another method to tell us about? Let us know more in the comments.

Third Party Services

TweetWorks - My favorite of the bunch because it’s so quick and easy to setup a group. Here’s one that I created called Writers for people interested in writing. Groups can be public or private, which is a plus. Another good option is the ability to post messages just to your group or to the group and the public Twitter timeline at the same time. Currently there is a limit to the number of private groups you ca

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