Comments on: Twitter Lists Causing Trouble for Fail Whale?

By: jack

jack — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:54:21 +0000

hello all

By: Ching Ya

Ching Ya — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:33:13 +0000

So that’s why, I was quite shocked to see Twitter Lists feature was out of site this morning. As much as I love Lists, I’m glad Twitter team is going for some bug-fix for a better user-experience. Certainly not hoping to see much of fail-whale due to the congestion.

I would prefer to use lists as an organizer to keep track of real time updates from certain groups of people. To auto-follow everyone on the list is not that necessary, I prefer to have that as an optional pick after I get to know them better.

@wchingya
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By: Norris

Norris — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:53:29 +0000

I’m not sure I’d like an auto-follow feature for lists – an optional one would be ok. There are a few ways to use lists:

1) To manage subset groups of your own that you want to follow (like groups in Tweetdeck and other clients). To me, this is the minor use.

2) To let someone else curate a large list of key tweeters to follow on a particular topic. For example, GamePro has done this with video game folks: http://twitter.com/gamepro/videogames. Those lists are living, dynamic lists, with entities/people being added and dropped as they move into and out of the relevant list topic in their careers. You shouldn’t just add everyone in such a list to your own follow list. Instead, follow that whole list, and let the curator manage the task of moving people in and out of the list as appropriate.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:16:39 +0000

…and I’m sure Travelodge will be happy to see the back of them:

http://cheezburger.com/View.aspx?aid=2864882176

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:15:36 +0000

… and I’m sure Travelodge would be happy to see the back of them:

http://cheezburger.com/View.aspx?aid=2864882176

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:13:41 +0000

No big loss – don’t really ‘get’ lists anyway :(

By: Tweets that mention Twitter Lists Causing Trouble for Fail Whale? -- Topsy.com

Tweets that mention Twitter Lists Causing Trouble for Fail Whale? -- Topsy.com — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:56:38 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Debra Sanborn, Doug McCaughan and Calvin Ho, Prerna Lal. Prerna Lal said: Twitter confirms that lists will be temporarily disabled until a full diagnosis of the cause of the error is made. http://j.mp/65HnCW [...]

By: Gray

Gray — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:49:09 +0000

Twitter’s list feature is better than WeFollow, imho. but it’s kinda strange that if you follow a list, you do not automatically follow everyone on that list. i’d like that, hope they add this while they squash the bug.

By: Matthew Ellis

Matthew Ellis — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:45:15 +0000

Yeah, quite coincidental really.

By: Clark Fredricksen

Clark Fredricksen — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:42:24 +0000

Interesting that the list outage occurs the same day that Twitter’s most popular 3rd party app launches “Lists” support. Bad news for all parties involved.