The beauty of Twitter is in its simplicity and in users' ability to completely personalize their account. I'm compelled to access my account because I know the sources of the content I'll find there were hand-selected by me and relevant to my unique interests.
I was under the assumption that most users have issues with following too MANY people and having trouble keeping up with 'the stream'. It could be argued that it's the fear of missing twitter updates that keeps people glued to the service (and other real-time status services). If such is the case, do users really need another way to clog up their stream and pull attention away from their real-life friend/family's updates - the ones that "really" matter?
While I could see the Lists concept being useful to new users who'd like a jumpstart into the 'twitterverse', doesn't Twitter already suggest popular twitterers to follow during account registration?
It seems to me that Twitter should be spending its time adding more languages/international support as well as figuring out how to better deal with spammers - instead of building new features that only select power-users will take advantage of and that will confuse more people than they benefit.
The beauty of Twitter is in its simplicity and in users' ability to completely personalize their account. I'm compelled to access my account because I know the sources of the content I'll find there were hand-selected by me and relevant to my unique interests.
I was under the assumption that most users have issues with following too MANY people and having trouble keeping up with 'the stream'. It could be argued that it's the fear of missing twitter updates that keeps people glued to the service (and other real-time status services). If such is the case, do users really need another way to clog up their stream and pull attention away from their real-life friend/family's updates - the ones that "really" matter?
While I could see the Lists concept being useful to new users who'd like a jumpstart into the 'twitterverse', doesn't Twitter already suggest popular twitterers to follow during account registration?
It seems to me that Twitter should be spending its time adding more languages/international support as well as figuring out how to better deal with spammers - instead of building new features that only select power-users will take advantage of and that will confuse more people than they benefit.