How Journalists Can Use Twitter Lists to Customize, Discover and Curate
Posted by Craig Kanalley at 9:07 AM on Oct. 29, 2009 On Poynter Online
Journalists, take note: Twitter is introducing a highly anticipated feature that adds a whole new experience to the social networking service.
As early as this week, Twitter Lists are being introduced to the general public.
Like “groups” in other clients, Twitter Lists enable users to follow collections of breaking news feeds, news outlets, specific journalists, niche sources, or any group of related Twitter users — perhaps those with geographical ties or connections to a specific event. Twitter Lists will allow users to do something familiar on third-party clients like TweetDeck and Hootsuite: create a single stream of tweets for a pre-defined group of Twitter users.
But that’s just the beginning of Twitter Lists and their application to journalism. Their ease of use and additional features could shake up the way Twitter is used altogether, adding new elements of customization, discovery and curation. This makes Twitter Lists something for every journalist, editor and news organization to keep a keen eye on.
To read the full story click here (I slightly edited the top of the column to update it in the present tense).
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