The wait is over. Twitter’s new Lists feature is now available to all users, project lead Nick Kallen has just confirmed through a tweet. The functionality has been in testing for weeks now with a select group of users, and a couple of weeks ago, opened to a wider audience. As recently as yesterday, only 50% of Twitter had access to Lists, but after an unrelated bug forced Twitter to briefly remove the feature, they were able to roll it out to everyone else quickly.
This means that not only can all users now finally make their own lists, but perhaps more importantly, you can now see which lists you have been included on. The latter is quickly becoming a new metric for measuring popularity on the service (which users seem divided about if that’s a good or bad thing).
And everyone will now have access to the third party sites already starting to pop up around the Lists API, such as Listorious, a Lists directory.
So, now that everyone can see them, be sure to check out our TechCrunch team list. Later today, we’ll also share some other interesting lists that we’ve been working on.
Update: As a side note, List descriptions should be coming in the next week or so, Twitter’s Vitor Lourenco confirms. This will definitely help users tell what the list is supposed to be, rather than simply relying on the list name.
I’ve made a list of potential zombies just in case. http://twitter....tential-zombies
i will follow your twitter someday, when i reach my #222 tweets,
regards
good job Twitter, I love the list!
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Twitter is now helping people create Tribes and communities. This will be huge! The potential for this is nothing short of viral syndication. Who’s list are you on?
Ken Pickard
The Network Dad
Why is it that lists can’t be given names with non-latin characters? I tried to create a list called 日本語 and it comes up as wrightak/list
When it was still beta, I assumed they would fix it before a general release.
This is terrible for everyone in the world that speaks a language that needs to be transcribed using unicode
here is A- Blogger list: http://twitter..../a-blogger-list for top A bloggers
if your name is not there @ me
Finally. I’m so thrilled, this has been needed for a long time
Just what I needed…great way to sift!
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