You’ve probably heard by now, Twitter is launching a Lists feature. The beta has been rolling out to users (randomly, it seems) for a few weeks now, but Twitter has finally gone ahead and made it accessible to just about everyone now. Basically, it lets users setup groups of users that they can share with friends, and those friends can follow all the users in that group with a single click. I think the Twitter team sees it as their first step towards the grouping mechanism users have been begging for these last few years, and it’s a solid first step at that.
There’s a lot of interesting uses for this Lists system. You could setup your list of favorite tweeters, or build a list of all the employees in your company who are tweeting. There’s a lot of neat ways clients could implement this feature going forward too, and Twitter is opening up an API specifically so they can.
In any event, check it out, and if you’re into game design or the video game industry at large, check out my @game-industry list. It’s got 200 (and growing) Twitter users from the game industry, and pop me a @reply if you’d like to be added or know someone who should be.
P.S. If you’re looking for a way to easily browse some of the Lists being built on Twitter, check out Listorious.
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