This article is an expanded part of 6 easy steps to twitter for beginners. #4 point of that article was, Importance of Twitter List. I tried my best to optimize the features and advantages of Twitter List.
Twitter gives you more than enough limit to follow people; that often makes impossible to keep track on each and every tweet by people in your network. One best way to make your followers and followings arranged in systematic manner in order to receive important tweets without missing a single of them is Twitter list.
A good and simple manner is to organize your twitter network in form of a group, if you aren’t using Twitter Lists then you’re probably missing some cool and informative tweets which you can’t afford to lose between hundred and thousands of twitter updates you receive every day.
Basic Features of Twitter List
- List allows you to follow twitter users without following them actually and you can still get their tweets.
- List can be made public or private.
- Follow other user’s list directly, without following that particular user.
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Advantage of Using Twitter List
- A group of people related to same profession or interest can help you analyze trends prevailing in a particular niche.
- If your list is “public”, it can be followed by other users too.
- Twitter Lists are SEO friendly, one can discover your list on search engines easily.
- List helps you to expand your twitter network. Websites like Listorious and Mashable.com/lists can help other’s finding your list and follow it.
- It obviously cut off the time you are searching for a particular tweet or a person in your network.
Other than its basic features and advantages, Twitter List is also an effective way to calculate other’s credibility and making close relations.
How?
Listing someone according to his profession, likes or specialty on any particular subject shows how you label/tag that person. Like list of best friends, list of twitter friends, list of social media professionals, list of incredible twitterers etc and so many other lists define your relationship with them. This goes same when others also listed you in their lists.
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How to use Twitter List in best way
- Don’t make too many lists. It will confuse you and others.
- List people by carefully reading their bio and arranging them in the best suitable list.
- Make your list public unless it is very personal.
- Don’t List people immediately after following them, observe what they tweet most of the time and how valuable is their content via tweet
- Name your list with relevant keywords
- List your list on listorious
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Share your idea of listing your twitter friends. How you made your twitter easy for yourself by using Twitter List?
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