We recently broke the news that only days after the feature had been switched on for all users, Twitter Lists were already being adopted by spammers. Now it looks like we’re about to get a new kind of List-related spam – people begging to be on Lists.

Techcrunch Europe reports that social media consultancy Simplyzesty is beginning to build Twitter lists of whole countries. They’ve already built one for Ireland, now they’re moving onto the USA and UK. The Irish List was apparently produced by hand but the American and British versions will be automated.

As Mike Butcher at Techcrunch explains, users will have to ask to appear on the Lists:

“Here’s how you get yourself into the list. The Irish one was built by hand, but the others are going to be built with a script but (sic) Twitter users tweeting “I want to get listed #TwitterCalifonia [or another state]” and Simplyzesty will collect all the tweets and add them to the lists for each State. In the UK Twitter users can tweet #TwitterEssex, replacing the county name with the county you live in.”

So, this won’t be a c