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UPDATED: Twitter Lists Beta: Organizing the Military Twitter Community (if you can't tweet it, blog it)
Friday, October 16, 2009, 04:20 PM - Twitter

 


This is a picture of my Twitter account when I sign in.  The Twitter Lists Beta feature displays at the top of my account.  A little over a week ago I posted a brief story on the soon-to-launch Lists feature that Twitter had announced on their blog.  With Twitter lists, I can now organize my friends and followers into groups.  My plan is to begin organizing lists in a similar way that military bloggers are organized into Branches on Milblogging.com such as Frontlines, U.S. Army, U.S. Military Veteran, and U.S. Military Spouse. 

The Twitter Lists feature is in Beta, so I can't Tweet about it according to the little splash page up top (my bad, Twitter).  Thankfully a fellow twitter tweeted me after I had been tweeting about "Twitter Lists" since last night.  I can't say I really knew you weren't supposed to tweet about it...I mean, I can barely read a billboard, let alone text that's written in 3-pointBecause there's nothing more obvious than text this small.

Anyway, the lists are easy to setup and maintain.  Once you’ve created your lists, you can only organize people that follow you by clicking on the List icon then checking one or more List boxes.  Here’s an example:





Each list gets it’s own unique URL, so you can view tweets from members of the list.  For example, http://twitter.com/milblogging/usarmy will include all Twitter users who are members of the U.S. Army.

I hope to get started this weekend organizing the military community who follow me into lists. 

It's a pretty slick feature, I guess.  I'm just a bit shocked this is the biggest feature Twitter is releasing considering the company is rumored to be worth a billion bucks.  I mean, with that kind of MONEY shouldn't Twitter be releasing something a little more more cool, like maybe a Twitter picture feature?  Or maybe a speedier site?  Or, I dunno, a Time Machine decorated like a Faberge egg?

NOTE:  Because "Twitter Lists" is in Beta it's hit or miss right now.  If you send me an email with your affiliation to the Military community such as Branch, Veteran, Spouse, Supporter, Parent, Foreign Military, etc...I'll make sure to get you added.  Drop me a line along with your Twitter ID: milblogging@gmail.com 



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