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6 Ways To Look At Twitter Lists

Posted on 01. Nov, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

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This week, Twitter made its new Lists feature broadly available. Lists allow you to enumerate a collection of  Twitter accounts, and then easily read updates from just those accounts. Others can view your lists, and choose to follow them as well. Here are 6 ways to look at the future implications of the Lists.

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  • Lists can be used to assess one own’s expertise in a field. As Twitter expands and lists survive the first hang-over of UberGeeks and SocialMediaMavens, expect human-curated lists to go deeper and local. Owning a niche is going to put the curator in the spotlight, much more than a simple followers/”featured on X lists” count.

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Tired Of Spam On Twitter? It Might Soon Get Worse.

Posted on 09. Oct, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

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Yesterday news broke that Twitter is in advanced talks with both Google and Microsoft to let them include Tweets in their search. The partnership could be a game-changer. The way search works today is still very 1.0 or top-down: the “importance” of a site is vastly determined by the authoritativeness and number of sites linking back to it (in meaningful ways).  But, as pointed out by viral marketing scientist Dan Zarella, “Page to page links are too slow. And news can take days to get indexed. More and more news is breaking on Twitter, not Google, because it’s not real time”.

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