Tips for the Best Customization of Your Timeline with Twitter Lists
With statistics showing 330
million active users per month and 145 million people using the social
media platform daily, Twitter is one of the few applications that has managed
to maintain its popularity through the years.
Due to its unique interaction style, Twitter has become a
hub of a wide variety of activities. You will find 24/7 discussions being held
on a huge range of topics despite the character limit, concert and movie clips
shared, and even experience news breaking at Twitter before any other form of
media – social or otherwise.
One of the most interesting features on this social media
platform is Twitter lists.
A Twitter
list is a curated group of Twitter users – simply put. It allows you to
effectively organize your followers, or even the people you follow, into
separate groups based on whichever distinguishing factor you choose and helps
in better management of Tweets.
Creating a Twitter
List
·
View the Navigation bar at
the top of your Twitter app.
·
Click on the “Create new
List” icon that appears.
·
Pick out an appropriate
name for your List as well as a description. This will help you distinguish
between different lists so be sure to choose well.
·
Add the different Twitter
user accounts you want to add to this particular list.
·
Click on the Done button.
Your Twitter list is now ready!
Editing or Deleting a List
·
Look at the List tab in
your profile. This contains all of the Twitter lists made by you.
·
Select the list that you
want to edit or delete.
·
Tap on the Edit list option
to make whatever changes you like. These can be changing the name/description
of the list or even managing the different Twitter accounts on it.
·
If you’d like to delete
your list, simply press the Delete tab and it’ll be done. Remember that this is
an irreversible action.
Customizing your
Twitter Timeline with Lists
One of the best parts about the lists option is that you can
pin them to your timeline in whichever order you prefer. Twitter allows iOS
users to pin up to 5 different lists at one time. These can also be rearranged
based on your priority and swiped to access them from home.
To see your ‘Top Tweets’ list first you will need to:
·
Press on the three
horizontal dots at the top right of your screen.
·
Select the ‘See Top Tweets’
tab.
This will shift your timeline from seeing the latest tweets
first to seeing top tweets. You can reverse it back as well by selecting the
‘Latest Tweets’ tab.
Twitter also lets you look up new lists. On the app, simply
tap on the prompt to ‘Discover new Lists’. Go through all of the options and
‘Follow’ the ones that you would be interested in.
If you already have a list’s name in mind that you’d like to
follow, just look it up in the search box!
Making the Best Use of Twitter
Lists
1.
Event Management and
Organization
Twitter lists are a great way to stay updated on events,
even if you are unable to attend them yourself. By using the related hashtag,
anybody from around the world can follow an event and contribute valuable
insights to the topic at hand.
It is also a great way of keeping in touch and updated with
whatever activity happens after the main event.
2.
Building a Staff Directory
Did you know that you can add in all your employees to a
single Twitter list and reach out to them easily? Super cool, right?
This will help you organize your staff better, create a
solid digital presence for your brand, and even promote the culture of
‘togetherness’ within your workplace.
3.
Competitor’s List
Being in-the-know of what your competitors are doing is one
of the key ways that businesses stay relevant and on top of their game. Twitter
lists make this extremely easy by allowing you to accumulate their accounts in
one place and view their activity easily.
You don’t need to go on each separate account and check them
out anymore!
4.
Showing Gratitude to Loyal
Customers
One of the key ways of growing a business is by creating a
good relationship with returning customers and showing you treasure them. When
you create a Twitter list
of loyal customers, those users will receive a notification every time a new
account is added to the list.
It creates a feeling of exclusivity among them and shows
that your brand truly appreciates their dedication. Additionally, it will make
it easier for you to reach out to them for promotions, campaigns, and ‘loyalty
programs’.
5.
Family and Close Friends
Quite often, updates and tweets of our relatives and loved
ones end up getting swept away amidst the sea of tweets from other social,
business, and news accounts.
To ensure you don’t miss out on any tweet from your family
and close friends, simply add them all on a separate list. This will help you
keep updated with whatever is happening in their lives and stay in touch more
easily.
Stay On Top of the Game
By customizing your timeline
through Twitter lists,
you get to make the most of your experience on the social media app. You can
easily filter out the tweets you want to see away from all of the rest and
design your timeline based on topics you are interested in.
Twitter has even changed the design of the lists page to
make room for header images and a better view of all the accounts present on
that list. The cherry on top is that lists are now pinned alongside your
timeline!
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