What are Twitter Lists?

Twitter Lists


Similar to the Google+ Communities, Twitter has its lists where you can follow or being followed by people with the same interests.  A list is a curated group of Twitter users – for example readers in your book’s genre.

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You can create your own, or subscribe to lists created by others. Following a select group of users can be very useful, and a great time-saving feature. But tweets from your lists don’t show up in your primary feed.
Marketing Specialist Whitney Zelmer: “The process of generating ROI (Return of Investment) from Twitter lists takes time, so be patient.  Keep engaging and offering interesting, timely information and you will eventually notice that others will start adding you to their lists.”

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Where to Find Your Twitter Lists?
Click on your Avatar icon on the right upper spot where it says: “Profile and Settings” and you will find the word “Lists”.  Probably the message: “You aren’t following any lists yet” appears.  Now click on: “Create a new list”.  Give your list a name and a (very) short description.
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Adding People to Your Lists.
To add someone to your list, go over to his or her Twitter profile.  Click on the “Settings” icon (right upper row, the small wheel icon, next to the follow button).  Scroll down to “add or remove from lists”.  You can create up to 20 lists and you have the option to make each one public or private.
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Social media star Michael Q Todd gives these tips regarding Twitter Lists: “You can only follow a certain number of people per day and in total due to Twitter’s rules.  When you make lists however this restriction is blown away.  You can make 20 lists and have 500 people on each of them but 500 may be way too many if all those people are highly active.”

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Your Lists Help to Brand Your Account.
If I want to know what a new connection is primarily interested in I can quickly scan through the topics of the lists that they have created.  You can learn a huge amount about people from this.  So be careful how you brand your lists!  This includes the description as well as the title.”  He also advices:

  • Thank people when they add you to a list
  • Add your lists to Klout
  • Constantly modify your lists
  • Add yourself to your lists.  Many people miss this.  Where it is powerful is when others start using your lists.  They are following lists that I am on and see my tweets because of this.

Some Twitter users never check their “Home” Twitter feed, they always use their Twitter lists to narrow down interests.  Invest more time in your lists! 

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SocialMediaExaminer Recommends:
“Twitter is a widely used resource to collect and share information, as well as interact and develop relationships with others in your field. To fully utilize the benefits of Twitter for your business, you need to get organized. As Twitter continues to branch out, information will get even more random and difficult to filter. Well-kept lists act as a permanent filter for each of your interests.”

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Twitter lists helps you to get in touch with the right people in a very short time frame.  Get more tips on SocialQuant  or on Kim Garst’s blog

 

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