Comments on: Don’t Get Sucked Into Twitter Lists

By: Twitter Traffic Is In Decline October 2009, Is the growth over?

Twitter Traffic Is In Decline October 2009, Is the growth over? — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:16:02 +0000

[...] good news is that there seems to have been a spike around Twitter launching their new lists feature in the last week but the bigger question is will Twitter continue to grow as it has done or has it reached [...]

By: Niall Harbison

Niall Harbison — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:22:21 +0000

Yeah Budgsy that is the right spirit to be doing it in and if everybody treated it like that we would be laughing but the fear I have is that people will inevitably try and game the system! People seem to be getting very excited about the feature though athough many saying it is a lot of hard work. Will be interesting to see how it goes

By: bugsy

bugsy — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:16:01 +0000

Status does not come in quantity, it comes in quality. Lists might be a great way to organize some of my favorite people, but they’ll only add me to a list if I provide value. I won’t be racing to get on as many lists as possible. My top priority is still to continue doing what I do, and make things happen. Being on more lists than Sam, Joe, and Pete makes no difference in what I accomplish.

Or something like that.

By: Niall Harbison

Niall Harbison — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:40:58 +0000

Yeah agreed on that. They should have probably just made them private, would have saved a lot of hassle. You will get people creating bogus accounts and adding themsleves to hundreds of lists, people begging influential friends to add them to lists, all the usual stuff. Like I said before I want to make a list of “wa@%&rs”, that would make some fun reading!

By: Darragh

Darragh — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:38:17 +0000

Fair enough. Not sure how you could game it – which is why I really liked your first post on it, but yes, agree with you it’s a bit pointless, especially as it’s really only useful to the list creator. Saying that, I’ve got about 15 lists now, though all on private. Don’t really see the point in creating a public one – if you want to know who I think is great, look at who I talk to, follow and retweet

By: Niall Harbison

Niall Harbison — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:34:03 +0000

The feature is more robust against spam and I can defo see the value but it will inevitably try and get gamed as usual. I think if used correctly it will help people to find some great new followers. Used incorrectly and as a race it will become useless. The biggest point of this post is to try and persuade people to not try and start gaming the system and appear on the lists organically.

By: Darragh

Darragh — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:27:46 +0000

AHEM!!

http://www.simplyzesty.com/social-media/twitter-lists-finally-kills-numbers-game-twitter/

Direct quotes:

“The new and more definitive way of finding who is influential and worth following on Twitter… A new popularity race has just started on Twitter and luckily this time you wonâ€™t be able to manually bump your chances but instead you will just have to writ really great content, be respected in your field or be seen as influential. This is the feature that could really take Twitter to a whole new level, very exciting indeed.”

Has your opinion really changed so much in 9 days?