Allow you to create lists of your followers into groups. Popular lists are grouped by geography, profession and services. The lists are publicly available and followable from your Twitter homepage.

Each Twitter account can create up to 20 Twitter lists that contain a maximum of 500 people per list. When creating a Twitter list you can choose to make it public or private. Private lists are for your own personal viewing. Lists that are made public as a part of your Twitter profile and can be followed by anyone. At the time of writing lists do not appear to be readable via the major Twitter clients including Swirl and TweetDeck.

Create a Twitter List

Creating a list is a simple task but may take a long time to sort out which followers to add to your lists. You should also make your lists worthwhile to both yourself and others.

1. Log into twitter.com
2. On the righthand side of your page underneath the search option select “create new list”
3. Name your list
4. Make the list public of Private. We recommend making it private till you have completed compiling the list.

You should create all of your lists before you begin adding people so you can save time.

Adding people to your lists

1.      To add people you can either
(a) Search people to add to your list via the search box
OR
(b)  You can also add people from your Following page or anyone’s profile page.

2.      .Select the Lists button to add the desired people. NOTE: You can select multiple lists to add people to.

Benefits of creating Twitter Lists

• Enables you to put organise the people you follow.
• By adding people to your lists the other people will see that you have placed them in a list creating an extra view or recognition for you.
• Greater networking opportunities with people in your own profession or local geographic area.
• Once you have created a great list you can share it in a Tweet.

Benefits of following Twitter Lists

• Allows you to follow a group of people with the same interest, for example SEO practioners without the need to directly subscribe to them individually.
• Follow large groups of categorised people for short times such as a project life cycle.
• Weed out the people that you really want to follow.

Your Twitter home page shows you how many and which Twitter lists you have been added to. If you appear on a list and do not want to be on it for what ever reason, there are currently two options available to be removed unless the list is malicious and breaks the Twitter Terms of Service.

• 1. Ask the list owner to be removed from their list
  2. Block the users account. This should only be your last resort as it will stop them following you and vice versa.

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