Twitter Lists make happy tweeters.

Twitter fatigue: you follow a ton of fascinating people on Twitter, but how can you reasonably keep up with that much information, even in 140-character blasts?

I use Twitter Lists, which are supported on the Twitter website and in most Twitter clients.

Say you follow a bunch of musicians, like I do, but seem to always miss when they announce a new album or tickets going on sale because their tweets get lost in your timeline. Create a list called “music” and add them to it, and then when you want to read the latest from your favorite musicians, view that list.

Here are the steps to creating your own Twitter Lists.

Step 1: Go to a musician’s Twitter page and click the lists icon.

Step 2: Select “create list” at the bottom of the dropdown menu that appears.

Step 3: Choose a list name, a description, and a privacy level.

That’s it! Now when you want to add someone else to this list, go to that musician’s Twitter page, click on the lists icon, and select your list in the dropdown. You don’t even have to be following the person to add them to a list.

Sometimes Twitter Lists can be a bit cranky, so if you get an error dialog when you try to add someone to a list, try again.

Any questions? Just ask me in the comments. For more on Twitter Lists, see the official Twitter help page.

About Halsted M. Bernard

Halsted, a/k/a cygnoir, does stuff with words. She is a writer and unlibrarian, and she has also been an online diarist since 1998.

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