Twitter Lists Don’t Work For Me
Twitter Lists launched last week and I don’t understand the hype.
Twitter clients such as TweetDeck have allowed users to create their own lists (groups) for quite some time. The only group that I have found useful is the one that separate my close friends from the rest of my stream.
Lists generally don’t aid discovery. That’s because there is no structure to the data. I am on a stock market list but only a small percentage of my tweets are market related. You would merely be following me, the person, not the investor. I mostly contribute noise to that list and if anything, it detracts from the user experience.
The best lists will come from data washing services such as StockTwits (disclosure: I’m a StockTwits employee). A large percentage of content within our lists are title relevant. However, the noise problem still exists. It’s not a perfect system.
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