Creating Groups With Twitter

So, over the last few posts, I’ve gone over the impor­tance of orga­niz­ing your tweets and how to setup groups with Tweet­deck and Hoot­suite. Today, I’m going to cover mak­ing groups on Twit­ter itself. They just recently released Twit­ter lists. You can use them to orga­nize your tweets just like we made groups with the other pro­grams. It’s pretty easy to do too.

All you do is log into Twit­ter. In the side­bar on the right side, there should be a lists sec­tion right under the search bar.

Just click on “new list” and a box will pop up. Here you will enter the name of your list and pick whether you want it to be pub­lic or pri­vate. We are going to call this list “Awe­some Tweeple”.

Hit “cre­ate” and we have a new list. Let’s add some peo­ple to it. There are a cou­ple ways of doing this. The first is to use the screen your taken to after you cre­ate the group. Just enter the user­names of who you are look­ing for and hit the “search” button.

The other way to add peo­ple from their pro­file page. Or from your fol­low­ing and fol­low­ers screen. If you do it from your fol­low pages the list but­ton will be next to their tweet. If you go to their pro­file it will be towards the top. Either way it looks like this:

When you click that but­ton a box will pop up with your avail­able lists. Just put a tick mark in the box next to your list and your done. They are now on your list. You can also make a new list in this same box.

Now you know sev­eral ways to help you orga­nize all those tweets. It should help with com­mu­ni­ca­tion and build­ing rela­tion­ships, which is what Twit­ter should be about any­ways. It is a social net­work­ing site after all.

I also think that peo­ple are going to come up with some very intu­itive ways to use the Twit­ter list as well. It’s always excit­ing to see where new things go. I’ll see you on Twit­ter!

~Chris

Sim­i­lar Posts:

• Cre­at­ing Groups With Hootsuite
• Cre­at­ing Groups With Tweetdeck
• How to Keep Up With Tweets

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