New Twitter Lists Function A New Way To Discover Social Innovators

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-10-29 11:01:00 UTC
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Twitter has started rolling out it's much anticipated "lists" feature for all users today.

Twitter lists give any Twitter user the ability to create a sub-group of the people they follow based on some specific affinity, such as "social entrepreneurship." The list then acts as a filter for that user, so they can just see updates from that group, rather from all of their followers.

Importantly though, lists are public. What this means is that when I create a list of social entrepreneurs, other people can see and even follow that list. Anyone who follows the list has the ability to see the full stream of tweets from people on the list, even if they're not following member of the list.

For people interested in the social enterprise space, the list function provides a great way to find new interesting social innovators without committing to follow them right away. Already, my @socialentrprnr account is on something like 25 lists - each of which ranges from 25-150 or so members and most of which are focused on the social entrepreneurship field.

Check out these lists to find some great new people:

http://twitter.com/EmilyTav/social-entrepreneurship - 100+ social entrepreneurs

http://twitter.com/solarafrica/social-entrepreneurs - 200+ social innovators

http://twitter.com/ivanpa/innovation - 50+ focused on innovation more broadly

http://twitter.com/dewittn/social-entrepreneurship - almost 400 diverse social enterprise

Read more about the new feature on this TechCrunch writeup. Thanks to TC for the photo above.

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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