How Twitter Lists Brings Back Human-Curated Directories and Reveals Influence
Posted on 03. Nov, 2009 by Mark in Webmaster News
Blogging celebrity Anil Dash examines Twitter Lists as a way to tag real-time Web feeds, while the Bivings Report says getting added to a Twitter list is more of an endorsement than getting followed. Dash says Lists is a winner because users must be signed in, creating an authentication and relationship requirement that reduces spam. Meanwhile, the Bivings Report says Lists could bring a beacon of light to one of the dark sides of Twitter: the stat padding that Twitterers engage in to gain more followers, thereby appearing important or influential.
- When Twitter Lists began rolling out to the bulk of the microblog
service’s 60 million users the week of Oct. 26, eWEEK opined about the impact
of the feature, which lets users group Twitter contacts into specific lists.
Because other users can view the lists of those they are following and
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