Why Twitter Lists Don’t Work
I like reading stuff, but I don’t like swimming through a sea of press releases and @replies to find it. I use human filters on services like FriendFeed to get the good stuff.
I have a trusted group of people who find information and share it with me. They pull from their feeds and their interaction gives me markers on what to pay attention to.
I’m not a seeker, and neither is a lot of people. I have stuff to do, finding information isn’t one of them.
Doesn’t matter how killer your Twitter list is, it’s still a raw feed of press releases and @replies. Until you can set up a list and then mark items inside that list that I should be paying attention to… it’s just a consolidated noise list.
Johnny
I think that Twitter lists do provide some value and therefore work in a sense.
Public lists are good recommendation engines and private lists are good listening tools however I think that your point on being unable to curate the actual feed is absolutely correct.
I think Twitter needs a tagging feature that allows me to create curated streams based on tags. http://bit.ly/1v5aqL
So while I don’t find them useless Twitter needs to take this to the next level.
Tsudo
29 Dec 09 at 1:51 pm