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6.5 Million Twitter Lists Created So Far

By Alex Wilhelm
November 1, 2009
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6.5 Million Twitter Lists Created So FarJust, it seems, a few hours into the full release of Twitter lists, some 6.5 million Twitter lists have been created. Just ask Google, it will tell you.

This must count as a stunning success thus far for Twitter. It so rarely builds new features, that indeed to see the first one in seemingly ages succeed bodes well for the company. At a 1 billion dollar valuation, revenue be damned.

Assuming some thirty million Twitter users, or whatever guesstimate you prefer, most users have yet to be listed. This only becomes worse when you take into account users with over 1,000 listings. Or in the case of Mashable, more than 7,500 lists.

I’ll be damned, but Mashable does know how to run a social media campaign.

How many lists are you on? Have you made any? I have yet to, to some critique. I have just been sitting about being added to them, the lazy blogger that I am. Perhaps I should make a list for the most prolific TNW commentors? Twinkle_Toes, are you around?

H/T Atul for the tip.

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  • Atul Arora
    The query [site:twitter.com "This list was created" ] in bing just shows one result :) I hoping I am using the right query on bing
  • No clue, but Google is quite specific. Damn, and I love me some Bing.
  • I've been playing around with Lists for over a week & my only advice is to do that....play with them. Create Lists, add people, take people off, delete Lists that now seem dumb or are duplicates, create new ones. Don't view them as written in stone.

    And if someone has put together an awesome List, follow their List instead of duplicating it. You have 20 Lists and while that might seem like a lot, I created 20 over a week & have some I'd still like to make. But you have no limit on how many Lists you can follow.

    Also, if you have oversensitive people you're Following who might feel excluded if you don't include them on a List, just keep your Lists private. You can always make them public at some point in the future.
  • Twitter lists = Time killer :)
  • A compilation of entrepreneurs, founders, ceo's, technologists, investors, social media and internet folk: http://bit.ly/cdlkg
  • I am loving the "lists". I can't be on Twitter all day and when I log in, I can go straight to my lists and see what I've missed from my best tweeters. Having them grouped by subject is a plus.

    I've also found new people to follow by "their" lists.

    It's not that important to me how many lists I appear on, what's more important is the valuable information I find from the lists I have created.

    I absolutely love this tool!
  • Rebecca,

    I totally agree with you on this. While it took some time to sort out my lists (and I'll probably tweak them), they ultimately save time since they let you zero in on a subject. And they're a great way to share and discover informative tweeters that might never have been seen by those interested otherwise.

    List envy and jealousy is a bit silly. "what’s more important is the valuable information I find from the lists I have created." <Exactly, but add [and others]
  • guest
    check out the most followed lists: http://bit.ly/YnzX8
  • Liz
    Interesting, I just hit the Google link this morning and it said there were just 4,840,000 Lists now. Either people are deleting Lists, making them private or Google is less efficient at its searches. I go for #2.
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