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July 12, 2010 • 10:36 am 1

tlists – search, curate and join Twitter lists

tlists allows you to search, curate, join and follow Twitter lists, a tool that is needed to make lists useful.  The main page starts you with a slick interface with some top lists and the hashtag categories they cover, as well as a search.  You are able to see the curator, apply to the list and even follow it.  Authentication is done via oAuth to Twitter for ease of integration your account.  You are able to add your own lists as well.

I authenticated myself quickly, with one of the best oAuth descriptive screens I have seen in the thousands of tools we review.  I was given views for:

  • lists I own/curate
  • share curation
  • have applied
  • follow

The charting of the lists showed stats on:

  • hashtags
  • members
  • followers
  • applications
  • tweets per day
  • balance
  • status of who can apply to the list

Right there I was impressed with the list management so I moved on to searching.  I searched for Lotus, as in the software and learned something unique the service offers.  It showed me matching lists and SuperLists.

SuperLists are real-time channels comprised of the most frequently ‘listed’ Twitter feeds in a vertical or geographic category.

The TLISTS aggregator adds or updates tens of thousands of Twitter Lists every day. These Lists are continuously indexed by their name, description, member bios and recent member tweets — and then, if relevant, sorted into hundreds of popular categories. Several times a day, the Lists within every category are synthesized to generate the SuperList.

The matching SuperList is the channel that most frequently includes your search query.

This was a great discovery!!  If you decide to apply to a list it actually sends a tweet to the list owner asking to be added.  A tad self presumptuous having to ask someone to be part of it.  Mainly when the only follower of the list is the list curator themselves.

Still a great way to find lists, follow lists and help be part of simplifying seeing massive amounts of content without following hundreds of people.

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December 14, 2009 • 12:48 pm 2

Listomatic: Organize Your Followers Into Lists With Ease

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Just like your Twitter contacts, you now have lists to manage them. Does Twitter really expect you to sort through hundreds and thousands of followers to group them together? Unfortunately, that seems to be the case. Listomatic! by SyndeoLabs is looking to solve your problem.

Listomatic is a dedicated Twitter list manager for your contacts. Simply drag-and-drop contacts into any of your Twitter lists. Listomatic’s search feature makes it easy to find who you’re looking for as quickly as possible. It’s well worth trying out if you plan on going on Twitter list creation spree.


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December 1, 2009 • 2:23 pm 2

ListAtlas – the most popular Twitter lists

ListAtlas makes Twitter lists simple by ranking them based on the number of followers.  The current leader being the list for the Twitter team themselves.  The top 5 is rounded out with two lists from Mashable and two lists from Scoble.  Each with a minimum of 2600 followers.

You can also use a handy search on the right side to find lists based on any keywords you wish.  My search for some entries didn’t find the result I know was there, so I am not sure how the search is being built just yet.  If the ability to follow the list could be added right from the search result, using oAuth, that would be excellent.

It wouldn’t take much to get into the top 250 lists on the site, with the lowest having 138 followers.  I am not sure how they are building and scanning every list in Twitter, but the author states he runs a script once a day to bring them all together.

Overall a great quick tool if you have to be like everyone else and find the popular lists.

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December 1, 2009 • 1:47 pm 0

ConversationList: A Dynamic Twitter List Of Who Thinks You Talk Too Much

ConversationList does a really amazing thing with your Twitter stream. It examines all the conversations you’re having with your Twitter followers and makes a list of out them. When you @reply someone, they are added to the list and when a period of inactivity passes by they’re dropped from the list. The list is updated to reflect changes daily.

ConversationList

Nothing further is required on your part except to approve access for  ConversationList to your Twitter account.  So if you’re interested in making the connections you want to make on Twitter or keeping up with developing ones, ConversationList is a good start.

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November 24, 2009 • 9:13 am 2

ListBrowser – the easy way to view Twitter lists

ListBrowser is another project from Dave Winer and shows functional simplicity as expected.  The main screen is the logo above and a simple box asking for the username of the list owner.  You are then presented with, well thinking of it,  a list of lists for that person.  Clicking on any list brings up a simple view of members, the number of followed and followers for each person as well as their bio and links to them and the list itself.

The XML for the list is available and clicking on any user in the list then gives you their lists.  The idea became clear.  I like this person and they have a good list.  Up pops who belongs to that list and clicking on any member shows you their lists.  You can basically use this to jump around for hours finding good content and lists themselves.  If he adds in tag searching of some kind for the lists, it would be even better!

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November 17, 2009 • 9:22 am 0

Listiti – Twitter lists meets Google alerts

Listiti goes after the new Twitter lists by generating hourly alerts to you via email (currently they only offer hourly) on keywords found in that list. The idea is a bit more complex and complete than you think.

The idea of Twitter lists is not to follow the hundreds of people directly, but to follow a list of people to get information on a topic.  Well if you are not following them, some of the other alerting systems won’t work the way you wish.  You could do a general aslert based on everyone on Twitter, but then you get too much noise.

Listiti will watch keywords in specific lists that you specify.  Narrowing the search and the group of people watched.  They have a selection of top lists, or enter your own and the keyword you want watched.  For example, watch a list of the social media ‘experts’ for a new product name mention.

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They also have badges that can not only show what list is being watched, but as a promotional tool for that list.  You can also unsubscribe from an alert at any time by clicking on the link in the bottom of the email you are sent.

Currently there is no charge for the service, yet the developer requests some free beer.

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November 2, 2009 • 12:24 pm 2

Twitter lists to RSS

Twitter lists to RSS, brought to you by TasteStalkr, is a new site that started up but is having some API issues right now.  You basically enter the list URL and it will generate a RSS feed for you from that list.  You can then take this into your favorite feedreader.  For example it gave back this list RSS feed for TheSocialGeeks (which we know is your favorite podcast right?)

I was then able to take that right into Google Reader.  While I don’t read tweets in RSS, some do.  A very few.

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October 30, 2009 • 9:31 am 2

Listorious – discover the best Twitter lists

Listorious jumped early on Twitter lists to create a site that aggregates all sorts of categories of Twitter lists and allows you to search for anyone to see how many lists they are on.  From marketing, companies, health, celebrity, news and even top social media thought leaders, they are all there.  Tags are available and the top lists overall has it’s own special section.

It uses oAuth to log you in (right now works best if you see lists on your Twitter page).  Once logged in you can see lists you are on as well as lists you have created on Twitter.  Interestingly when I searched my name I only found a couple lists but using this interface I found more than that.  I am guessing this does not read or see private lists that anyone has created.  Nor did it find the public list I made for TheSocialGeeks.

There had to be somewhere to go and we were way too busy to start an EverythingLists site :-)

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