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Twitter LISTS: Good Idea… And Deserves The Title BETA

November 5th, 2009

Twitter wrongWho knows where Twitter is going; I don’t, but it has lacked organization for a while now. No filtering, not easy block people, not easy to report abusers and now they’ve released a ‘LIST’.

Twitter Lists, it’s a good idea, but so far bad execution. I follow a bunch of people [a bunch for me] and there’s no way to weed the ‘important’ to the ‘not so important’.

Thinking about it a little bit more…

Twitter lists beta message

Twitter has functions functions that I just can’t stand; things like hovering to see the button options, those should just be standard and visible, and the add-on they have now with LISTS; it just drives me crazy.

Twitter toolsThey have management tools in other areas of the website, but it just seems clunky to put these options in another section.

They need to think about working on their GUI interface to be able to manage users right there, stuff that’s there now and in front of you. It needs to be easier to manage- I’m not looking forward to clicking all over the place to manage these ‘LISTS’.

This is a good example [nothing against FREENOLOGY]:

Twitter example

I can’t do anything with this… Where’s the option to stop following, block, report abuse or add to a list; it’s not here and this doesn’t help anyone.

The only thing I can do here is REPLY or FAVORITE it… argh.

I’m glad to see Twitter doing something with their site, but they need to be trying to round those edges… and thus- it’s a BETA [meaning a work in progress].

Thanks for reading!

Thanks,
LHenryJr.
www.lehsys.com


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  1. November 5th, 2009 at 13:13 | #1

    Twitter LISTS: Good Idea… And Deserves The Title BETA (http://cli.gs/AEz3n) http://cli.gs/AEz3n

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  2. November 5th, 2009 at 15:23 | #2

    I agree. It is truly beta, but I like it. I like the way they are releasing it one piece at a time. I also allows other companies/people to develop sites and programs to do this for you. To me that is how Twitter has become so popular. They captured the programmers.

  3. November 6th, 2009 at 21:59 | #3

    Larry,

    I think you need to check one of the twitter clients such as seesmic (desktop or web), Tweetdeck, or Brizzly if you want more functionality out of twitter. I think twitter's real power lies in its open API. I rarely use twitter's website. I think the powers that be at twitter want the site to intentionally be minimal so it appeals to a broader audience otherwise it would be too cluttered.

    They did open lists up to their API so you can access your lists with seesmic and brizzly.

    Take Care,

    Bryan

  4. November 6th, 2009 at 22:12 | #4

    You are absolutely correct. I have tried several options and my focus was on Twitter service itself, but I am working on something else in regard to what you mention.

    Thanks my fellow surfer…
    Larry

  5. November 6th, 2009 at 21:59 | #5

    RE: @lehsys Larry,

    I think you need to check one of the twitter clients such as seesmic (desktop or web), Tweetdeck, … http://disq.us/36rla

    This comment was originally posted on Twitter

  6. November 11th, 2009 at 21:59 | #6

    Great article you might be interested in that talks about lists and other features twitter has come up with. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/11/simple-is-...

  7. November 11th, 2009 at 22:43 | #7

    That was a good article… but I wonder if Twitter can develop before others
    can… to compete.

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