A lot has happened on and around Twitter since I left for a week. All those news pales in comparison to the introduction of native lists on Twitter.

We’ve used groups on advanced Twitter clients like TweetDeck and Seesmic already but this week Twitter lists went live for everybody on the Web interface at Twitter.com

The introduction of lists been a wise move by Twitter for many reasons.

Twitter lists result in people who use Twitter apps of all kinds returning to the actual website and generate page views and clicks.

Also these lists are more than the groups we could use within Twitter clients.

1. You can share these lists when they are public.


2. You can subscribe to public lists.


3. You can see who’s on them.


4. You can see on how many lists you appear.


5. You can link to lists


6. You can invite people to join lists.

Some features you’d expect are missing as of now though:

1. You can’t leave lists, other put you on them.


2. You can’t join lists, only others can make you join.


3. You can’t address lists e.g. only tweet something to a list.


4. You can’t see whether you see a tweet based on a list