Comments on: Twitter Lists – This Just Might Be a Game Changer

By: Rob McCance

Rob McCance — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:11:19 +0000

Spake,

I enjoyed your reply.

I gave up the debate a while back. And now that tweets are going to be indexed by Google, I am assuredly steamrolled anyway.

I personally don’t tweet, or even have an account. I just don’t have time to monitor, or contribute to, one more thing.

My email inbox scrolls off the screen about every 2 hours as is, and I’ve got about 25 new pages to design for my site, a new IDX to integrate, new AdWord campaigns to go along, clients to service and two kids in four sports here, two of which I coach.

I’ll play with twitter when I retire if it’s still tweeting.

By: Karen Goodman

Karen Goodman — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:02:05 +0000

I think that the best use of lists will be to find new people. For example, if I was going to be relocating and could find a list of realtors in my destination city, that would be helpful. It will also be a good way to find new local people to follow. I’m currently included in 14 lists, all of them but one being lists of local St. Louis people. The other is a realtor list.

But since I do everything through Tweetdeck, I’m not going to go to the trouble of creating lists until they are integrated into Tweetdeck, as I’m sure they will be soon. At that point, it will probably be worth switching from groups to lists.

@karenstl

By: Matthew Rathbun

Matthew Rathbun — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:35:41 +0000

I’ve been on lists and I’ve not been on lists. It neither took money from my pocket nor put any in.

My question is what is the virtue of the time it takes to build a list of who’s the most influential voices on Twitter?

There are people who are considered highly influential, but have never actually done the job…

I can be highly ubiquitous on Twitter with surgeons, but would they ever ask me how to do a heart replacement?

By: Fred Romano

Fred Romano — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:58:11 +0000

I still don’t “get” twitter… I have it, use it a bit, but think it’s more of a modern open chat room. Still don’t think it has any use in RE but I guess we’ll see.

By: Derek Overbey

Derek Overbey — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:17:32 +0000

Great post Linsey. Love the insight from you and Jay on Twitter Lists. I’ve always looked at the lists I’m putting together for Roost a little different than others. People are thanking me for putting them on the lists but I’m doing it for others not for the individual that goes on the list.

For those that have been on Twitter for a while, it’s obviously easier because you have the people you follow figured out for the most part. But what I was doing when I first decided to do this was remember back to when I first opened an account…I didn’t know who to start following for business, friendships and education. So my purpose was to help those new to Twitter with a starting point of people I find interesting and informative.

It’s not perfect, but then again it’s not sold as the end all, be all list to use to follow. I’m afraid Twitter Lists are going to be.

By: Portland Real Estate

Portland Real Estate — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:39:41 +0000

One of the best things about Twitter is the simplicity, I really hope that they dont start mucking things up with additional complications and too many features. They should just stick to trying to keep things fast and up and spam free.

-Tyler

By: Joe Spake

Joe Spake — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:19:42 +0000

I keep my lists private. No way I have time to build the lists out the way I would like to because of the tedious process. Time is too valuable to be diffused with these trivial pursuits.
And what’s this obsession with Lists anyway? There must be some psychological studies out there somewhere. Does it matter if I make it to your “real estate cool kids” list or you make it to mine? Isn’t it really all about being in the Conversation?