From my perspective, it has given me countless suggestions of who to follow based on my friends lists. Categorized by topic, they serve as virtual recommendations because they’re hand-crafted, and that allows me to follow new people who are respected by a friend.

Well, of course you can come up with list names that make sense to you. That’s really what it’s all about.

My names focus on what a person does and typically tweets about. Blogging, for example, is not everyone who has a blog. Rather, it is folks who tweet and post about professional blogging.

PR-Marketing is not a list of anyone who has a business and therefore does PR or marketing. Rather, it’s a list of tweeters (mostly marketing and PR professionals) who share links about marketing.

You can probably see where I’m going with this.

Of course, depending on how you follow people on Twitter and your interests, your categories would probably be different.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts about lists. Probably, there are many people on Twitter who won’t really use the feature — and that’s okay too.

I mean .. to create a list called .. “bloggers” ?? doesn’t everybody blog?

Or .. “marketers” or “social media” ?? Isn’t that practically everybody with a blog or, on twitter?

Some lists might mean something to the person making the list .. but just end up too vague for other people. I mean, “super-bloggers” or “favorite-bloggers” or “people-I-talk-to” may seem good for yourself, but I hope these are private lists.

Me? yeah – I have no idea what to do with lists and shouldn’t complain or be a hypocrit :) However, I have been toying the use of lists to the needs that I use my twitter for .. and if your name is on there .. please be sure to say hi :D