Facebook has lists that let you organize your friends, Twitter Lists is primed to let you do more than that. It's already a neat tool for business and marketers, Twitter Lists gaves us some new targeting opportunities, and might also evolve with new online social marketing potential as it expands.
Like Facebook, you can categorize people on your Twitter Lists and add them to one or more of your private lists, as determined by you, on lists that you name (and can edit later). Though with Twitter Lists you can create public lists if you decide to. I suggest you start off with private lists, get comfortable then go public later. You can also find out what lists you are on (and in this way find other cool, like minded Twitterers !!! Unlike Facebook, you can add anyone to your lists (provided that person hasn’t protected his / her updates), making for a great way to find and follow people.
So with some basic understanding of what Twitter Lists can do, noew take it further to grow you Blog; Check others' lists and see how they're using Twitter Lists and on what which lists they’ve been added. From other lists you’ll learn a lot about what it can do for you. Try different things, and feel free to make changes to your lists and list members to create the best, most effective lists for you (Blog Experts, Affiliate Advertising, Monetization Blogs, SEO Blogs, Friends, etc). You decide and have the power.
Also add yourself to your own lists. This is helpful when others check out your lists and follow them. Just don't just follow everyone on other's lists. The tempation may be to go to some "blog experts" and automatically follow their entire list and all the members, instead, select people from that list and put them on your own clearly defined list. Keep control of your lists and make them appropriate for your needs and what you're trying to accomplish. If one of your lists is SEO, don't clog it up by copying from others and finding your list is no longer SEO focused, but filled up with misc people because you copied randomly !
If you have Twitter Lists on your Twitter account, get started. If you not part of the Beta test, don't worry, you'll get it soon. Use Twitter as one part of your blog's social networking and marketing efforts, don't spend too much time on it, there are many other ways to grow your blog, keep experimenting with new ways and of course, Blog to Great (ness) !
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