Now that Twitter has officially unveiled its Lists feature to all users, the frenzy has started. But while Lists are available via Twitter’s site, the feature has been slower to come to Twitter clients. Today, Seesmic is announcing the availability of Lists on its desktop client, Seesmic Desktop.
The new, downloadable version of Seesmic Desktop will display your Twitter lists in the left sidebar from any Twitter account you have (Seesmic lets you use one client for multiple accounts). The new feature also lets you add any Twitter user to any user list from any of your account. Right now, list functionality is limited. You cannot see lists that list you, only lists that you follow. And you cannot create lists from the client; this must be done within Twitter’s site. But, Seesmic’s founder and CEO Loic Le Meur told me that both the ability to create lists and see lists that follow you will soon come to Seesmic Desktop in the next few weeks.
The list feature will also come to Seesmic Web shortly, says Le Meur. He also said that lists took so long to incorporate into the clients because the updated, comprehensive API wasn’t available until a few days ago. Le Meur and his team have scrambled to launch a new version of the desktop client over the weekend and will unveil it to Seesmic members today, and to the general public within the next few days. Other third party sites have also tapped into the Lists API, Listorious, a Lists directory.
List descriptions, which will be coming in the next week or so according to Twitter’s Vitor Lourenco confirms, would also be a valuable addition to clients like Seesmic.
TweetDeck, one of Seesmic’s main competitors, is also adding list functionality very soon, according to TweetDeck’s founder and CEO Iain Dodsworth. While the nature of TweetDeck’s lists feature is still a secret, he told me that “integration will be extensive and offer complete flexibility to TD users with particular emphasis on curation, consumption and portability of lists and existing TD groups.”
Seesmic Desktop, which integrated with both Facebook and Twitter, has also hit 3 million downloads, with the last 500,000 downloads taking place within the past month and a half. The client was recently upgraded to add Facebook fan pages, yFrog integration, a “reply to all” button for messages and a favorites timeline. Earlier this summer, Seesmic recently launched its browser-based Twitter client at TechCrunch’s Real-Time Stream CrunchUp. Seesmic Web will also be integrated with Facebook within the next month as developers are currently tweaking the application’s functionality on different browsers.
Disclosure: TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington is an investor in Seesmic. I am not.
Great!
How many of those “downloads” are 1) actually used; and, 2) “Seesmic Desktop” and not Twhirl, which falsely reports as “Seesmic” to the API?
very good point
This doesn’t work. None of the lists I follow show up. Seesmic sucks and I thought this would make me like it again. Sorry guys, still sucks. Tweetdeck better hurry up and add better list support.
which is better these days, tweetdeck or seesmic
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None of the lists are working for me. Bummer. Got me all hot and bothered!
Nope, lists not working here either.
I’m suprised that so many have implemented the Lists API as it’s in a state of flux at the moment with the API team discussing whether to switch between slugs (that they use at the moment) or using list Ids ONLY, which means any clients using slugs presently, will break when they make the changes!
What happened to Seesmic video comments? I noticed TechCrunch removed the option this summer and the WordPress plug-in has discontinued development.
Are they phasing out Seesmic video?
We’ll be watching the Lists functionality closely in terms of what we are doing in CloudProfile. Great to see Seesmic getting a baseline in place quickly. I hope to see many different “interpretations” of how to use Lists across the various clients…Lists could be very powerful for average users, but also risk becoming a free for all that creates more noise rather than meaning. Ultimately the 3rd party tools will be the place where the first truly useful usage scenarios will emerge.
Monthly active users should be the metric used for the clients. And shouldn’t that be available publicly by doing some stats on the public stream?
Congratulations to Seesmic. If they indeed were not lucky enough to be among those given early access to the API (as I was with @TalkingPuffin), then this is really quick work!
Great!
can’t wait to get home and get the new download
When is Brizzly going to integrate the lists? That’s the best Twitter client going right now.
Okay..how long before Twitter will start doing this on their site?
Time is ticking for parasites like Seesmic.
Come on!! All that fuss for something that doesn’t even work, is anyone actually testing those things. At least when Tweetdeck releases something they make sure it works. Seesmic sucks, one more time.
doesn’t seem to integrate with other people’s lists i’m following. that sucks
@Mike D – Parasites – I don’t think that word means what you think it does.
conflict of interest? You guys keep promoting Seesmic which has failed so far.
Sadly, seesmic consume huge amount of memory…
I’m not using it, coz its resource hungry!
Great feature. However, I used the video forum on Seesmic and it seems this function is disappearing though it’s what Seesmic intended to be. A bummer they don’t try to develop more Seesmic video.
The list functionality highlighted in the bitmap is old client side functionality. Latest release of Seesmic does not seem to integrate with Twitter lists
Why not?
Can’t you guys try this stuff before saying it’s launched and working? It is quite obviously non-functional. IT DOESN’T WORK AT ALL!
I don’t get why this article is still here. It categorically does not work.
unfortunately it was not mentioned in this story that we will make the new build available to teamseesmic in the next 24 hours, you need to be registered here to get it:
http://seesmic.com/team.html
we go through this step in order to test the new integration with our most addicted users first and will make it available soon to everyone.
so it’s absolutely normal that it does not work yet, in a few hours with the new build, it will.
Wow, good job guys. I look forward to using this
So finally Seesmic become the first twitter client to
add twitter list feature, I’m still waiting for tweetdeck to roll out this feature since its my fav one.
Works great. Lots of fun.