Comments on: Curating Twitter Lists

By: Kellie Stevens

Kellie Stevens — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:36:16 +0000

Hahahaha. I was gonna give you grief about that because no one else had yet. But then I thought about it and in truth know I’ve had a dry spell in getting good content out there. I looked at it as needing to earn my way onto your list.

Feel free to bump me off the list if I get to remiss in the future.

By: Scott Jangro

Scott Jangro — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:04:00 +0000

and of course I just realized I left you off my list! I hope you were not offended.

(fixed!)

By: Kellie Stevens

Kellie Stevens — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:19:21 +0000

Paint my clueless, selfish & anti-social.

When the list thing appeared the first thing I thought “yeah..a way I can manage my twitter account where it works better for me!” I honestly never gave it a thought that anyone would really care too much one way or another about my lists. Except maybe to give it a glance to see there is someone of interest they may want to follow. I mean I follow to meet my needs and I doubt my needs/wants will be a fit for someone else.

I did think about potentially offending someone inadvertantly by not having someone on a list. It took me 2 years to get over that and finally do my first unfollow.

I didn’t know you could make the lists private. If that’s possible, then that’s probably the way I’ll go since it’s all about ME. I’m not sure I want all that responsibility of having a public list.

Seems there’s parts of the whole social media thing the anti-social part of me just leaves me clueless about. You have given me a good perspective to think about before I set up any lists. Thanks for that!

By: Scott Jangro

Scott Jangro — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:08:53 +0000

I guess the important thing, as a curator of a list, is if you have people following it, you’ve got some resonsibility to keep it up-to-date. Or turn it private.

By: Scott Jangro

Scott Jangro — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:04:07 +0000

Curator Jangro, I like it.

By: jgoode

jgoode — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:52:13 +0000

I completely agree, there will always be those that are left out. As I created my lists I kept wondering who I’m leaving out and where I should put people… and even more frustrating “do I really know this person” and then “why am I following this one?”.

I’m already wishing there were third party tools to help better manage my lists.

I think the quality of a list is relative to who is looking at it. There will be perceptions of good quality depending on the perception of the creator. I think all my lists are great, but that doesn’t mean that will be of any value to you or the next guy… but I think that’s the beauty of a list.

By: Brian Littleton

Brian Littleton — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:23:32 +0000

I like that you can now add “Curator” to your list of job titles.

Good points on lists… there has been a lot of excitement (and rightfully so) – but there are downsides to lists and you’ve touched on some of them.

Ones I’ve come up with so far….

1. If you create a list of customers – your competition gets an easy bag of m&ms. (It was recommended to me that we have a list of retailers on ShareASale … )

2. Static nature of lists as you mentioned, will make them irrelevant fast. We throw a big hitch in the giddyup of Twitter when we put humans in charge of the lists.

3. This will likely change – but I don’t think it is immediately obvious to everyone how they work or what they do…