Twitter Lists - A Great Organizational Tool

Once the people you are following get up there in quantity it can be challenging

, if not impossible to follow them and cut through all of that noise. I'm a bit late to the party (what else is new) but I just took the time to create a few lists on my Twitter account to organize the people who truly provide value into lists that make sense to me. Here are the basics:

To create a new list, follow these instructions:

- Visit the profile of the first user you would like to add to your list

- Click the list drop-down, which looks like the icon above

- At the bottom of the drop-down menu, click "Create list"

- Enter the credentials of your list, and choose whether others can see it or whether it is private

- Check to see if the user you wanted to add was successfully included in that list: to do this, click the list drop-down. A blue check will be added next to lists in which that user is included (shown below under "Adding or Removing People")

Some notes about Lists. You can have 20 lists per user; List names cannot begin with a numerical character, and there is a maximum of 500 accounts on each list

And below are five tips that may be helpful:

- Decide what categories or topics are truly of interest to you and start a list for each. Remember, this is your playground, so you get to decide what meaningful means, and how each person fits in to that description. No rules here.

- don't make it hard. Add people as you come across them either as new followers, or while reading a Tweet you particularly like.

- decide if each list should be public or private. Family might be private; most others public would be my guess. Remember, for the most part, you are using Twitter to be "findable" by search engines and others. So public is the way to go.

- peruse other Tweeps lists to find people you want to follow. Like Groups, it's a great way to fish where the fish are.

- in placing someone in one of your lists you are giving them visibility and findability. It adds to the engagement factor that is so critical to social media success.

I'm a secret organizational nut. I've just found a new toy with Twitter lists, and can't wait to play more. Get started, if you haven't already. You may even find that you are reading more Tweets than ever before, AND gaining more value.

by: Elyse Tager

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