Thursday 8 July 2010

Discover Lists with Tweet Pivot

We've just added a great new feature to Tweet Pivot - the ability to pivot someone's Lists. Firstly, if you don't know what twitter lists are you should read Mashable's guide.

All you have to do is enter a user's screen name and, if they've created any, their lists will be displayed under the usual links to their friends and followers. Hovering over the "Lists" button will expand it to show the actual lists.

Tweet Pivot adds ability to pivot twitter lists. on Twitpic

What's exciting about this development is the added richness that's apparent from pivoting lists as opposed to someone's friends or followers. People in lists tend to be, at a minimum, interesting - otherwise they wouldn't be in it. We've also found that the quality of the Klout data we import seems to be much better across a collection of list members compared to collections of friends or followers.

This new feature opens up some amazingly rich veins of twitter data. A very quick web search found this article by Marshall Kirkpatrick on Read Write Web: 10 Twitter Lists You Should Follow. Here are links to the Tweet Pivot collections based on the lists in the article.

  1. Patrick LaForge: Linkers
  2. Josh Elman: Awesome Social
  3. Robert Scoble: Founders
  4. Rebecca Leaman: Nonprofit Geeks
  5. Chris Grayson: Augmented Reality Peeps
  6. Mike Taylor: XMPP List
  7. Raven Zachary: iPhone List
  8. Christina Braden: Disability List
  9. Ben Turner: Anthropology List
  10. The ReadWriteWeb: Team List

As always, please tell us what you think and, if you like Tweet Pivot, retweet us.

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