Twitter lists have been around for a while. And I’m quite an active user of the feature. I know there’s many ways in which lists are used so let me remind you about mine:
I’ve just sorted out all the people I follow into lists so I don’t get my timeline full 24/7. And it’s a wonderful thing. I follow just the ones whose content I’d consume at any time of the day while leaving the rest for on-demand requests of their tweets.
And it’s great! My main Twitter window is clean, Android does not bing every 5mins, needless to point out all these advantages.
My approach has only one problem: I actually FOLLOW the users that are in the lists. They are my FRIENDS. But Twitter does not see them that way so every now and then I’m forced to follow someone just for the sake of receiving a DM.
I know that this does not apply to all the usage models of Twitter lists but here’s my 2 cents: I’d categorize the lists. I’d add an extra feature called “Friends List”, just to mark a particular list as full-featured as the main following one.
Of course for those who really want to ping me there are 2 not-as-quick options:
1) check my background image. My email’s in there.
or
2) use http://buzzdm.com/ a service that sends regular @ replies but only lets the intended receipient see the content of the message when he signs in with his Twitter account.
Speaking of BuzzDm it has become quite popular amongst teenagers. Wondering where this will go 
So tell me: would you like people you follow in certain lists to be able to DM you?
