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The Twitter Lists feature offers users the ability to group Twitter accounts together in any way that they choose. However, another use of Twitter Lists is to follow a list of Twitter accounts that someone else puts together. In fact, this is a fantastic way to quickly gain access to a lot of tweets on a given subject.
But how do you know what list to follow? Will you drown under the volume of tweets being posted? Who's in charge of who is or isn't on the list? TLists is a service that is attempting to make working with Twitter Lists a little bit easier. For readers, you can search TLists for a given topic and see lists related to that topic. Each list shows how many members the list has, how many people are following it, approximately how many tweets are generated per day by the list, and even the most commonly used words and hash tags.
Beyond just finding lists to follow, TLists offers a strange an "Apply to List" function as well. Clicking the Apply to List button on any list's entry will send an email create an @ mention to the owner of that list, letting them know that you would like to be considered for inclusion in their list. The email doesn't tell the list's owner who is applying, but presumably redirects them to TLists for more information.
This doesn't feel right to me.
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TLists indexes Twitter Lists and provides curation tools originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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