Twitter's been working on a lot of new features lately, from
geolocation to
Project Retweet, and the latest new toy to enter limited testing is
Lists. Pretty soon, you'll be able to make a list of Twitter accounts so that others can follow them all with one click. We've seen some well-known Twitter users - I'm not naming any names, but it
rhymes with Scobbert Roble - vehemently bash the Suggested User List that Twitter invites new accounts to follow, so an alternate way to find interesting groups of users is definitely a positive development.'
Lists is a new Twitter API that third-party apps will be able to use, so we might see some of the early attempts at Twitter groups, like WeFollow, fall by the wayside. No matter, though: a huge database of user-generated lists will offer more specific categories of people to follow, and hopefully turn into less of a popularity contest. On the other hand, Lists could make it faster for all those Twitter spambots to follow the maximum number of accounts.
Tags: API, lists, twitter
