I finally got the ability to create Lists on Twitter yesterday. (Twitter has been slowly rolling out the feature.)
Lists allow you to sort the people you follow By Topic. So if you want to catch up on tweets from florists, you can create a category by that name and then add the florists you follow. By accessing your list, you'll only see tweets from folks related to the topic.
Other Twitter users can also follow your lists, so creating robust, interesting collections of Twitter streams by topic can gain you more followers in your areas of interest.
In my personal account, I sorted as follows:
- local florists (folks who operate from stores with same-day delivery)
- floral designers (folks who discuss floral designs and eiither operate from a studio or a B&M storefront)
- floral industry (non-retailers, so the list includes associations, magazines, growers, wholesalers, manufacturers) If this list gets too big, I might break it down further.
- Orange County (people and businesses in my local area)
- Local Search (people who post about issues involving local search)
- SEO (Search industry folks)
- SMBs (folks who tweet about small business issues
... plus a few others
You can assign a twitter account to more than one list. For example, I listed @mattmcgee in SMBs, SEO and Local Search since he tweets knowledgeably about all three topics.
Needless to say, the possibilities for list names are endless.
Tip: You can create your topical lists and then go through your follow list to assign streams to the most appropriate list(s). If you want to add a new topical list, it can be done on the fly. This means you'll just review each account once, rather than going through your entire follow list every time you want to add a new topic. Questions? Post 'em below.
The more lists on which your Twitter account appears, the more likely you are to be well followed. Our shop account has been added to lists labeled as the following:
fellowflorists
floral-designers (2)
social-tweeps
in-real-life-tweeps
entrepreneurs
florist
florists (4)
local-florists
Orange-County
OC
You can see there's a pattern emerging about both topic and location. Twitter and others will use this data as a sort-of taxonomy (hierarchy of classification.)
Gotta say, in creating my lists, I noticed there are A LOT of florists who haven't tweeted for weeks or months.
You can't be heard *or create more opportunities for your company* if you don't say anything.
Lists allow you to sort the people you follow By Topic. So if you want to catch up on tweets from florists, you can create a category by that name and then add the florists you follow. By accessing your list, you'll only see tweets from folks related to the topic.
Other Twitter users can also follow your lists, so creating robust, interesting collections of Twitter streams by topic can gain you more followers in your areas of interest.
In my personal account, I sorted as follows:
- local florists (folks who operate from stores with same-day delivery)
- floral designers (folks who discuss floral designs and eiither operate from a studio or a B&M storefront)
- floral industry (non-retailers, so the list includes associations, magazines, growers, wholesalers, manufacturers) If this list gets too big, I might break it down further.
- Orange County (people and businesses in my local area)
- Local Search (people who post about issues involving local search)
- SEO (Search industry folks)
- SMBs (folks who tweet about small business issues
... plus a few others
You can assign a twitter account to more than one list. For example, I listed @mattmcgee in SMBs, SEO and Local Search since he tweets knowledgeably about all three topics.
Needless to say, the possibilities for list names are endless.
Tip: You can create your topical lists and then go through your follow list to assign streams to the most appropriate list(s). If you want to add a new topical list, it can be done on the fly. This means you'll just review each account once, rather than going through your entire follow list every time you want to add a new topic. Questions? Post 'em below.
The more lists on which your Twitter account appears, the more likely you are to be well followed. Our shop account has been added to lists labeled as the following:
fellowflorists
floral-designers (2)
social-tweeps
in-real-life-tweeps
entrepreneurs
florist
florists (4)
local-florists
Orange-County
OC
You can see there's a pattern emerging about both topic and location. Twitter and others will use this data as a sort-of taxonomy (hierarchy of classification.)
Gotta say, in creating my lists, I noticed there are A LOT of florists who haven't tweeted for weeks or months.
You can't be heard *or create more opportunities for your company* if you don't say anything.
