Monday, November 2, 2009

Pingie: HTTP:: Twitter Users Have Created 6 5 Million Lists So Far

HTTP:: Twitter Users Have Created 6 5 Million Lists So Far
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Twitter Lists were rolled out over the weekend to all users and they've proven a huge success so far. Maybe it's the fact that Twitter implements important features like this one very, very slowly, or maybe it's just the fact that the feature is proving very useful to most users. It's probably a combination of the two, but, in any case, there are about 6.5 million lists created so far and it's already showing a different picture on just who's influential on the microblogging platform and who isn't. Twitter doesn't provide any useful numbers related to the Lists feature, but a specific Google search, as the Next Web blog reports, shows that the number of Lists URLs is getting close to the 6.5-million mark. These, of course, are just the public Lists but, seeing how Twitter makes sure that every page on the site has a very SEO-friendly URL, which can't really be said about the rest of the site, the number is accurate enough. It will be interesting to see how the feature ev!
olves over time and if users will begin to see the number of people that lists them as important as the number of their followers, or even more so, but, so far, it has shown a rather interesting side of Twitter, proving that a huge number of followers doesn't necessarily translate into relevance. The ImpactWatch blog decided to see...
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Twitter-Users-Have-Created-6-5-Million-Lists-So-Far-125856.shtml
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