Scobleizer: My world has changed (and I get to share with you)
susanbeebe
· 1 month ago
Wow, great stuff Robert! You are the most savvy twitter list builder yet! Thank you for sharing your industry contacts, knowledge and insights with us! I was already following some of these lists, but you've added some really great, new ones to check out. Also, thanks for adding me to your Favstar list :)
David Siteman Garland
· 1 month ago
Hi Robert,
First comment on your blog always a big fan/lurker :)
Anyway, this is an excellent use of Twitter Lists which in my opinion are collectively a huge game changer for Twitter. Why? Scalability.
I was always concerned that I would not be able to keep up with followers how I would want to (finding relevant information, interacting, learning) and the Lists feature is one of my absolute favorites
(PS Somewhat shameless plug you can hunt me down @therisetothetop)
guillaumefoutry
· 1 month ago
Robert, if you have the secret of a two hour night sleep, please share with me! :) Great lists, thanks!
Partha
· 1 month ago
Cloud computing?
Scobleizer
· 1 month ago
Cloud Computing is covered in my Web hosting list, sorry for not being clearer.
nrek
· 1 month ago
This is where "getting to know who I know" is at. #FF is a dump of unqualified @ replies. I like using lists as a delivery mechanism for this type of thing; good play, Scoble.
Jonathan Nafarrete
· 1 month ago
Agreed! I am amazed how much I find myself fixated on Twitter lists all day. Something has definitely changed in how I use Twitter. Your lists are some of them too!
thomasknoll
· 1 month ago
Still waiting for more people to learn that these tools are for learning via listening (as opposed to the many who are trying to base their value on the places they see their own names). Thank you for sharing insight into the reasons you have created these lists.
hardaway
· 1 month ago
I use them for listening only. But it's hard to listen to all of Scoble's lists. I don't know how he does it. I work:-)
rssanborn
· 1 month ago
Robert, I must be missing something. While I see the inherent value for users that tools/companies like Seesmic provide (and I wish them the best of luck) I struggle to see their monetization model. is it just to rely on advertising? how do you or they themselve see survival when the companies they build upon often haven't figured this out?
thinkspace
· 1 month ago
You put together some really great lists. Thanks.
triphen
· 1 month ago
great job!
finally the lists turned me back to twitter after a long time staying on hootsuite and similar tools...
and your lists really rocks!
i have just to wait the others italian (people and more important companies) on twitter... :(
Partha
· 1 month ago
oh yea got it. i hope @twitter give me the ability to search inside a particular list. And how about a comparison of different people twitter lists to bring out smart suggestions to connect similar interest people? Moreover i should be able to compare two or more people twitter lists and get quality content :-)
Paul
· 1 month ago
Very cool way to organise one's contacts - you've given me some ideas.
montagecomms
· 1 month ago
All interesting stufff. Interestingly I had started to group lists already in Twitter using Tweetdeck, but I appreciate the power of being able to embed lists in blogs etc (like mine).
I have noticed that I am drawn more to Twitter now over my RSS feeds because of the immediacy of the news.
Good move Twitter and it brings us back to the website to play with lists now, where as we were all getting a little bit too stuck on Twitter apps I think?
By the way - can you add @zubworld to the start ups list? This is social network about places rather than people (3.2m locations worldwide so far) going to alpha test soon.
Viki
· 1 month ago
Robert - No wonder your lists are among the top followed lists on Twitter.
This is an excellent compilation and following your lists has helped me filter a lot of noise and focus specifically on the topics I care for.
Using the lists feature with a Twitter client like seesmic has exponentially improved my capacity to go through a lot of useful information and ignore the marketing and noisy tweets.
Thank you for your effort in creating these Awesome lists! :)
guillaumefoutry
· 1 month ago
Robert, please share with me the secret of two hours night sleep? How do you find the time to do all of this? Would like to know how you plan your days! Thanks for the lists!
Ahad Bokhari
· 1 month ago
Robert - Out of all the people i follow on Twitter your lists have really helped me find the right people. Thank you for adding value.
I noticed you got rid of the Peeps who did something big list and in your "Programmers List" you have everyone there (Atwood, Resig, DHH) except for @Rasmus (Rasmus Lerdorf) the Danish Programmer who created PHP.
I drilled down but couldn't find him in there. Just a thought here. Also would love to see a "Geek List" but maybe thats too general for you. In any case Thank You very much.
luca filigheddu
· 1 month ago
You put myself in the Founders and Favstar lists (thanks!) but not in the CEO etc. list... Plus, have you tried CoTweet? Their newly launched implementation of lists rocks the house :-)
khuramh
· 1 month ago
Hi Robert,
Cool, I think ended up following most of those lists. Thanks - Great if you can add me to the founders list. khuramhussain (Inbox2.com)
jimflowers
· 1 month ago
You are a excellent source for what is!
hardaway
· 1 month ago
This is more a comment on the high quality of the video in this interview than on your lists, which I can't decide whether to just follow and be done with it or develop on a more personal, less noisy basis. I don't want to listen to 500 people talking just about tech news, since I'm also interested in so many other things --economics, politics, health care, entrepreneurship and there are only so many hours in the day to check Twitter:-)
Scobleizer
· 1 month ago
I went for completeness in my lists. You should build your own with the subset that you like listening to. If you ever need completeness you can always just flip over to my list to see what's going on.
YouPage
· 1 month ago
Hi, Thanks for taking the time to create these lists, Very useful. Maybe you could add YouPage @youpage to your TechStartups list?
nir pengas
· 1 month ago
i agree with this one, specifically with the slow action of goolge reader that has been my main source of news for a long while now. it is slow. so slow..
in fact, different google products are becoming too slow.
i have asked this question for a while now (probably not in the right forum) but that is besides the point.
it takes google over 60 seconds, if at all, to render less than 100 locations on a map.
since this is the issue for over 4 months now, i think it is safe to assume that google doesn't really care. the fact they are not aware of it just shows you that things are not working as they should.
here is the advantage of a small team like twitter, who are able to take care of their one product and do it well.
can they scale is the million dollar question with todays potential viral marketing and exponential growth.
jsandford
· 1 month ago
The real value is going to be when we forego this list concept and move to tagging of individual Twitter users, much like Delicious, but for people. Those tags will crowdsource a profile of people. That profile (and more importantly, its tags) can then be searched by people based on what they're looking for. You might mean something to me because of where you live. You might mean something completely different to another person because of what you know. But if you've had people tag you because of those attributes, you have a whole new level of opportunities for finding people who are interesting to you.
Just my $.02 -- people-tagging based on their attributes is where I'd like to see Twitter go.
thomasknoll
· 1 month ago
Ooooh! I like that! +1
Scobleizer
· 1 month ago
Lists are tags. You just aren't looking at them right.
jsandford
· 1 month ago
They are an unstructured, unmineable form of tagging. If I go to your profile and see all of the lists that you're on, that's great. But if I want to find out who lives in suburban Chicago and has a pastry shop, I'm out of luck. If I make a list called "people on my end of town", that does no one any good because that's contextual.
I'm always for granularity in this kind of thing and it seems like lists are one step away from what would really create value in finding common traits across Twitter's users.
Scobleizer
· 1 month ago
That's just because no one has done that yet with list names. I wish that were here, though, too.
Ike Pigott
· 1 month ago
The 500-person limit on the lists would cut down on the usefulness as a tag.
If you have 2,000 people in San Antonio, you'd want them all in a San Antonio list, and not San-Antonio-1, San-Antonio-2, San-Antonio-3, San-Antonio-4...
thomasknoll
· 1 month ago
Except that, I haven't seen a way to discover people based on the names of lists they are on. And I haven't seen a way to discover all the people on lists with the same name by other users. And, I'm limited to 30 'tags'.
I'm sure someone will come out with this sort of thing soon. Remember that Twitter itself has always been way behind the curve when it comes to search-type functions.
E.g. to this day they don't yet index the Bios to search over on "Find People", which is crazy. You have to use tiny http://tweepsearch.com for that, which is a 1 man, 1 server side-project from @dacort.
Indexing List names is trivial, and I wonder if even Google is already looking at that. As to @Ike's point above, I'd say the geo-location stuff that's coming/starting on Twitter plus the (albeit self-selected/described, optional) Location field are taking care of that "tag", no?
In fact, smart people in smaller places near larger locations are putting things like "Plano near Dallas, Texas" in there. Once again, TweepSearch has already been indexing that field for a long time.
Did you give a try to http://listiti.com ? The google alerts for twitter lists. I've now released a new version with badges that you can use in such blog post to invite your visitors to either follow the list on Twitter or suscribe to some keywords via email.
For example you could say your readers "you may want to follow this list and watch for that hashtag"... Pretty cool no?
Mark Tomlinson
· 1 month ago
I'm curious - how do Twitter Lists impact performance of Twitter's systems? Considering analysis for a relational schema for tweets and tweet throughput, I can imagine that this innovation (if everyone used lists instead of follows) could improve Twitter performance for the better; very much so. But also, is it an admission that the original "Follow Me" paradigm is over? Are you following Scoble?...or are you following Scoble's List(s)? Is there a perceptible difference in our experience, especially over a long period of time?
Florist Edmonton
· 1 month ago
Great list thank you for share.
SplinteredMind
· 1 month ago
I've put lists on the back burner, but your phenomenal work here has made me reconsider. I'm interested in finding authors who use twitter to stream about the process, not serve promo URLs all day. Lists is a perfect way to gather them. It really will be a game changer in the long run.
fredwilson
· 1 month ago
i've been thinking about lists too Robert. i posted about them just now from a different angle.
what a mind, and heart, and energy you have ... great for upgrading my understanding of possibilities
Peter du Toit
· 1 month ago
You have taken the art of curation to another level seriously. I agree with Steve Rubel curation is the next big trend and your comments here illustrate the point perfectly.
Mark Essel
· 1 month ago
Go Go super human filter!! Rockin' lists, you are an information super star Robert. Not sure where I can find time to suck in all the relevant content you are curating. Certainly the weapons for startups is drawing my interest. I sense great interest in that list as our economy goes through a great shift.
Mark Essel
· 1 month ago
He's lucky, this is part of his work. I'm thankful that he's taking the time to keep on sharing it with those that can't make the time.
gaylordRoukine
· 1 month ago
great interview!
David Markowitz
· 1 month ago
Robert - check out @signalpatterns; we're an early stage firm focusing on psychology-based mobile/web apps (for /tech-startups, /ipone lists); doing apps w/folks like Deepak Chopra, Franklin Covey, etc.
@davidmarkowitz
Choon Hong Peck
· 1 month ago
Hi Robert,
Useful lists of lists! Just followed most of them.
Would you mind adding Thingbuzz to the lists for "TechStartups" and "Twitter tools and devs" ?
Thingbuzz is a fun site to discover the most talked about products on the web.
Thank you. Invaluable. Taking Twitter to a new level of journalism.
We blog and tweet about our experience as founders who went through the entire cycle from M&A to exit. @charlesday
Prokofy
· 1 month ago
Excellent work. I hope you can somehow monetarize this obsessive list-making that is such a rich mother-lode of knowledge and connections.
I'm also so relieved you've made these lists, so I can just look at your lists and not make my own. I haven't felt the need to make Twitter lists somehow. I can't even explain why I have less and less time for Twitter lately and why I am back to reading blogs and newspapers more.
Bill Sodeman
· 1 month ago
This article got me interested in twitlists again. www.listorius.com is an excellent find.
DMPR
· 1 month ago
Robert - Awesome list(s)! Thanks. For your TechStartups list, pls. consider Spunch. http://spunch.it (Not an Italian company, URL sounded better!).
Spunch is a startup that lets businesses reward customers already talking about them online. Spunch brings your local retail shop's 'loyalty card' to a whole new social media playing field, acting as a terrific lead gen tool with word-of-mouth marketing to give local businesses and customers closer relationships.
Tyler Willis
· 1 month ago
Twitter Lists are (at least in my use), crowd-sourced targeting. I look at your list of hot companies and think, "Wow, Investors should follow that list, and reach out to everyone on it saying how much they respect Robert's opinion and if that company should ever need capital, please come talk to us first!"
Raising their profile will be net-positive I believe, but there will be an influx of spammers/scammers utilizing Twitter lists and we should watch out for that.
All Comments
Thank you for sharing your industry contacts, knowledge and insights with us!
I was already following some of these lists, but you've added some really great, new ones to check out. Also, thanks for adding me to your Favstar list :)
First comment on your blog always a big fan/lurker :)
Anyway, this is an excellent use of Twitter Lists which in my opinion are collectively a huge game changer for Twitter. Why? Scalability.
I was always concerned that I would not be able to keep up with followers how I would want to (finding relevant information, interacting, learning) and the Lists feature is one of my absolute favorites
(PS Somewhat shameless plug you can hunt me down @therisetothetop)
finally the lists turned me back to twitter after a long time staying on hootsuite and similar tools...
and your lists really rocks!
i have just to wait the others italian (people and more important companies) on twitter... :(
I have noticed that I am drawn more to Twitter now over my RSS feeds because of the immediacy of the news.
Good move Twitter and it brings us back to the website to play with lists now, where as we were all getting a little bit too stuck on Twitter apps I think?
By the way - can you add @zubworld to the start ups list? This is social network about places rather than people (3.2m locations worldwide so far) going to alpha test soon.
This is an excellent compilation and following your lists has helped me filter a lot of noise and focus specifically on the topics I care for.
Using the lists feature with a Twitter client like seesmic has exponentially improved my capacity to go through a lot of useful information and ignore the marketing and noisy tweets.
Thank you for your effort in creating these Awesome lists! :)
I noticed you got rid of the Peeps who did something big list and in your "Programmers List" you have everyone there (Atwood, Resig, DHH) except for @Rasmus (Rasmus Lerdorf) the Danish Programmer who created PHP.
I drilled down but couldn't find him in there. Just a thought here. Also would love to see a "Geek List" but maybe thats too general for you. In any case Thank You very much.
Cool, I think ended up following most of those lists. Thanks - Great if you can add me to the founders list. khuramhussain (Inbox2.com)
in fact, different google products are becoming too slow.
for example, check out this post:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Do...
i have asked this question for a while now (probably not in the right forum) but that is besides the point.
it takes google over 60 seconds, if at all, to render less than 100 locations on a map.
since this is the issue for over 4 months now, i think it is safe to assume that google doesn't really care. the fact they are not aware of it just shows you that things are not working as they should.
here is the advantage of a small team like twitter, who are able to take care of their one product and do it well.
can they scale is the million dollar question with todays potential viral marketing and exponential growth.
Just my $.02 -- people-tagging based on their attributes is where I'd like to see Twitter go.
I'm always for granularity in this kind of thing and it seems like lists are one step away from what would really create value in finding common traits across Twitter's users.
If you have 2,000 people in San Antonio, you'd want them all in a San Antonio list, and not San-Antonio-1, San-Antonio-2, San-Antonio-3, San-Antonio-4...
names of lists they are on. And I haven't seen a way to discover all
the people on lists with the same name by other users. And, I'm
limited to 30 'tags'.
E.g. to this day they don't yet index the Bios to search over on "Find People", which is crazy. You have to use tiny http://tweepsearch.com for that, which is a 1 man, 1 server side-project from @dacort.
Indexing List names is trivial, and I wonder if even Google is already looking at that. As to @Ike's point above, I'd say the geo-location stuff that's coming/starting on Twitter plus the (albeit self-selected/described, optional) Location field are taking care of that "tag", no?
In fact, smart people in smaller places near larger locations are putting things like "Plano near Dallas, Texas" in there. Once again, TweepSearch has already been indexing that field for a long time.
I've now released a new version with badges that you can use in such blog post to invite your visitors to either follow the list on Twitter or suscribe to some keywords via email.
For example you could say your readers "you may want to follow this list and watch for that hashtag"...
Pretty cool no?
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/11/twitter-list-ip...
Rockin' lists, you are an information super star Robert. Not sure where I can find time to suck in all the relevant content you are curating. Certainly the weapons for startups is drawing my interest. I sense great interest in that list as our economy goes through a great shift.
to keep on sharing it with those that can't make the time.
@davidmarkowitz
Useful lists of lists! Just followed most of them.
Would you mind adding Thingbuzz to the lists for "TechStartups" and "Twitter tools and devs" ?
Thingbuzz is a fun site to discover the most talked about products on the web.
http://thingbuzz.com/about
http://twitter.com/thingbuzz
Thanks!
Thank you. Invaluable. Taking Twitter to a new level of journalism.
We blog and tweet about our experience as founders who went through the entire cycle from M&A to exit. @charlesday
I'm also so relieved you've made these lists, so I can just look at your lists and not make my own. I haven't felt the need to make Twitter lists somehow. I can't even explain why I have less and less time for Twitter lately and why I am back to reading blogs and newspapers more.
Spunch is a startup that lets businesses reward customers already talking about them online. Spunch brings your local retail shop's 'loyalty card' to a whole new social media playing field, acting as a terrific lead gen tool with word-of-mouth marketing to give local businesses and customers closer relationships.
Raising their profile will be net-positive I believe, but there will be an influx of spammers/scammers utilizing Twitter lists and we should watch out for that.