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Twitter Lists Rock!

Twitter_list

I love being able to organize an categorize stuff efficiently. Twitter has always been a bit hard to sort through all the information from the people you follow. Even using a program like TweetDeck, it's still a challenge.

Now with Twitter Lists, each person we follow can be assigned to one or more lists that we define. These lists can be public or private, the difference being public lists can themselves be followed by others.

Here are the public lists I've created from some of the people and companies I follow. Feel free to follow any of interest to you:

 

 

Twitter spam

Spam is everywhere! Spam is annoying, but at least it’s not hard to spot. Somehow they think I won’t get suspicious when a cute girl I don’t know starts following my geeky tweets. Yeah right! What they’re trying to do is get me to follow their tweets.

What to look for in a spam account:

  • they’re typically new accounts, no more than a few days old
  • some seemingly legitimate tweets that jump from topic to topic without any rhyme or reason
  • ads formatted in network marketing speak mixed in with the fake tweets.

If you get any cute followers that you think might be fake, you can block them by clicking on “block” in your list of followers. Here are a few examples of how to spot them: