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Re: My world has changed (and I get to share with you)

Tyler Willis — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:59:50 -0000

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.

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DMGONZO — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:14:04 -0000

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.

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Bill Sodeman — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:27:16 -0000

This article got me interested in twitlists again. www.listorius.com is an excellent find.

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Prokofy — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:57:08 -0000

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.

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howardlindzon — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:46:36 -0000

well done. good seeing you in denver. h

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Choon Hong Peck — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:20:46 -0000

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.

http://thingbuzz.com/about
http://twitter.com/thingbuzz

Thanks!

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David Markowitz — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:58:45 -0000

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

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Eugene Mandel — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:37:29 -0000

We are working on the discovery use case that you mentioned, but in the mean time we visualize what Twitter Lists say about a user: http://www.mustexist.com/li...

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gaylordRoukine — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:41:16 -0000

great interview!

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Mark Essel — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:33:39 -0000

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.

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Mark Essel — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:31:43 -0000

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.

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Peter du Toit — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:38:54 -0000

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.

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gregorylent — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:04:09 -0000

what a mind, and heart, and energy you have ... great for upgrading my understanding of possibilities

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fredwilson — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:38:45 -0000

i've been thinking about lists too Robert. i posted about them just now from a different angle.

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/200...

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Jesse Stay — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:03:49 -0000

Check out http://mustexist.com - they do something similar.

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AlexSchleber — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:33:36 -0000

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.

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D Cootey — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:20:34 -0000

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.

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Florist Edmonton — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:27:59 -0000

Great list thank you for share.

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Ike Pigott — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:50:10 -0000

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...

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Scobleizer — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:22:03 -0000

That's just because no one has done that yet with list names. I wish that were here, though, too.

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thomasknoll — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:57:42 -0000

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'.

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Mark Tomlinson — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:45:28 -0000

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?

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Jamie Sandford — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:33:23 -0000

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.

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Scobleizer — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:16:49 -0000

Lists are tags. You just aren't looking at them right.

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Xavier Damman — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:12:02 -0000

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?