Joseph Kelly Thinking out loud

Twitter Lists

I've been exploring the benefits of Twitter lists over the past week to see what value they provide. Personally I have no real need to create lists. Categorising offers little value over my stream. I've been creating private lists (groups) on tweetdeck for sometime now and they are rarely used.

So the buck is then passed onto people intent on creating lists that they believe offer value. They are being formed by people creating them without tweeters permission or alternatively by you actually submitting your profile to be included in a list. Types include.

Nick Kallen the list project leader states

"lists have the potential to be an important new discovery mechanism for great tweets and accounts. We started working on this feature because of the frequent requests we received from people who were looking for a better way to organize information on Twitter"

Some significant value and structure may start to emerge with the lists api

So list creators be they stupid or clever are now on the prowl, and we must begin to look at lists of lists, or do we?