socialmedian: Twitter finally adds user groups feature, calls them lists

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Twitter finally adds user groups feature, calls them lists

Source: VentureBeat

Oct 16, 2009

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Twitter’s new feature, which the company calls lists, allows users to group together curated collections from among the people they follow.

For example, the list @paulboutin/entourage merges status updates from my hand-chosen group of best friends ever: Facebook chantreusse Randi Zuckerberg, VentureBeat mobile maniac Matthäus Krzykowski, local publicist David Speiser, and Bono.

The syntax for a describing a list in conversation is like this: @paulboutin/entourage. The URL for a list looks like this: twitter.com/paulboutin/entourage. Open that URL, and you’ll see only updates from the four users I’ve put on my entourage list.

Twitter rolled out the lists feature to a test group who simply found a notice at the top of our home pages upon visiting them today. The notice ends sarcastically: “You’re part of a small group receiving this feature, so don’t tweet about it yet!”

The ability to create groups is possibly the most in-demand feature among Twitter users. Reading one big river of updates from everyone they follow quickly becomes a mess for users who follow lots

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