Comments on: Twitter Lists: Coolness or Ease of Categorization?

By: cv

cv — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:59:43 +0000

Hi David!
I’m realizing there is *so* much to the listing phenomenon that we need to think about, critically and proactively, to make lists useful and to have them support our larger purpose(s). I fond this post on Twitip by @jadecraven: Twitter Lists In Detail or, “Yo Dawg, I Heard U Like Lists!” http://bit.ly/12AJm5 which along with Brian Solis’ writing summarizes important list-related insights. cv

By: David Zinger

David Zinger — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:39:12 +0000

CV:

Well done about listing. I just want to be on Santa’s list.

It is not so good when a ship begins to list.

I am not using listing much right now, need to sort it through. Thank you for bringing words to something I was pondering.

David
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By: neagaoleg

neagaoleg — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:32:22 +0000

if you’re cool I think it’s normal to be followed by many people, the same thing is with lists, many would like to put up you on their own lists, i don’t see any inconsistency here

By: cv

cv — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:44:07 +0000

Hey Tim-
Good point tool that whether you’re on a list says as much about the listmaker(s) as it does about the folks who’ve been listed! Right now there’s a lot of interest in lists b/c they are the latest bso, and we want to figure out how to use them… but it remains to be seen whether folks keep up with listing, how lists get used, how lists become useful, and so on.
It is really intriguing to me (and to Rachel Happe) to consider what lists can tell us as a new form of network data. Tentatively, I’m calling it ‘listonomy’ (like ‘folksonomy’) It’s a whole new network construct… since we can now connect to each other thru lists (clusters of people) rather than 1:1. Thank goodness I dont’ need a dissertation topic.
And Tim, I see you caught on to my secret plan…. I want to get more people to follow Cali, and @Heartfeldt, and @Bob_Bruner…..
cvh

By: Tim Walker

Tim Walker — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:12:33 +0000

Well said, CV. Twitter listing is also subject to the same phenomenon that affects some topics on Wikipedia: completeness as a function not of a consensus view of importance, but of one author’s or a small group’s thoroughness (or obsession) with writing on the topic. In other words, a maniacal listmaker *might* list @CaliYost on 4 lists — or 40 — which wouldn’t, in itself, make Cali more or less valuable than if she were listed on 3 lists by 3 different people.

(Thanks for pointing to Cali, by the way — I’m following her now.)
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By: cv

cv — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:58:28 +0000

Alex,
Thanks so much for that great insight– the real ‘data’ is qualitative. It’s about what kind of impact you have, how your tweets are seen, received and used. It would be far better to be on one person’s list of “tweeple that challenge my thinking” than on 10 lists of “business tweeple”.
Of course, either of those is better than being on the list of ‘boring tweets I have to follow just in case.’
cv

By: Kim Claudio

Kim Claudio — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:53:38 +0000

I love the new feature I actually just made a twitter account yesterday and its worth it. Good for your business and for any other things you would want people to catch up on. If they are following you cool and congrats to twitter.

By: Alex, aka SocialButterfly

Alex, aka SocialButterfly — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:42:47 +0000

Agreed. People are quick to jump and say this is a measure of influence…but I think it’s more a matter of categorization like you said. Now–depending on how you name a list and the names of lists you are on, then that could have an effect. But I think lists give more of a qualitative insight into someone’s impact rather than an added quantitative benchmark of impact.
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