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How To | Create a Twitter List

11/09/2009 - 9:00 am By Richard Darell
How To | Create a Twitter List

Twitter’s new feature “Twitter Lists” is widely talked about right now and maybe the biggest addition to the Social Media scene since…I don’t know when. But the fact is that it’s quite a unique feature and an odd one coming from Twitter. Twitter is usually a very careful company and wants to rather minimize functions on their super successful baby than to paintball it with features all over the site. However, this one is a great one even though it’s an odd move from the hyper cool company.

But, this new feature can be quite transparent if you don’t know how to use it or what it’s for. There for I have tried to dig up the best (right now) tutorial to explain how to create and maintain your lists on Twitter. It’s quite simple but for some reason people don’t use them very often as they add another layer to Twitter’s very simple user interface.

It’s really sad cause it will give you even more freedom to follow the ones that you really want to. The ones that you connect with or really enjoy learning fron for example. For me, with now over 26,000 followers, it’s an invaluable tool that I will sure use more now. I have tried so hard to connect with most people following me (and will continue doing so) but now it get so much easier when I can categorize all my followers and the ones that I follow.

So, here is a short clip of how to create a Twitter List that’s all your own. It’s quite simple. Enjoy!

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woodcut / San Francisco

November 9th, 2009

Very simple instructions. Thanks.
Only 1 gripe re: lists = why do the person’s tweets show up on the lists? If I want to read all that “bob” has tweeted, i can do that. But seeing everything “bob” has tweeted (in a list) is distracting.
All the best to you.

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Erin Blaskie

November 9th, 2009

I totally agree with you on sorting through the thousands of people you are following. Lists allow you to separate out the people who fall into very specific categories while still letting the noise happen should you want it to.

Thank you so much for putting my video in your blog post! :) You rock!

E.

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Kathy

November 11th, 2009

I made the mistake of trying to go back and categorize everyone into lists, (I’m newer to Twitter only have just over 700 followers so far) and found it too cumbersome. So there are people I enjoy following that are not listed and I list everyone new that I follow. But then I started thinking maybe I don’t want to list everyone. Also found I am limited to 20 lists. This does not cover the wide range of categories of people I follow. So, my experience with it so far is hit and miss.

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November 16th, 2009

There for I have tried to dig up the best (right now) tutorial to explain how to create and maintain your lists on Twitter.

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Angela R Bell

November 16th, 2009

Thanks! This was quite helpful.

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Allison Reece

December 4th, 2009

Erin, you are just precious! Great job in presenting the information to simple minded people like me!

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@MadKeet

January 22nd, 2010

this is such a valuable tutorial, i am merely scratching the surface with twitter at the mo, wahoo ! more learning.

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Diana Adams

January 27th, 2010

This video is great! I’m only about, I don’t know.. 5 months late on creating lists. Haha! But since my computer crashed and I had to recreate all my filtered Tweetdeck columns, I finally created my first list. I watched this video and the whole thing is super easy. Awesome!

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Robin Sing-Cunningham

January 29th, 2010

Wow, I’m actually going to start to use this. Thanks so much for sharing and taking your time!

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Connie Oswald Stofko

February 9th, 2010

I found this tutorial very helpful. I never really understood what lists were about, but now I see how they can be useful. These are functions that I have been using Tweet Deck for, but now I see they can be done right in Twitter. I may stick with Tweet Deck anyway because it has some other useful features, too.

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Regena Stefanchick

April 7th, 2010

Your video was efficient, easy to understand, and very helpful. Thanks Erin!

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virgin designs

April 7th, 2010

Very Useful – Thank you.

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Roxie Hampe

July 25th, 2010

@Jim I totally agree with you

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July 25th, 2010

@John I totally agree with that point

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