Over the past few weeks thousands of people have been using our software to investigate collections of twitter users; but it's been a read-only process. Now, once you've found a subset of interesting users, we'll allow you to save them 'en masse' to one of your Twitter Lists.
This does require that you grant us access to your Twitter account but I've already blogged about what we will and won't do with that trust here.
This is what the new interface looks like - note the new button at the top 'Save Users to a Twitter List'. I've already filtered the collection so that it just contains people that Klout considers to be Socializers.
The first time you click this new button you'll need to tell Twitter that we can access your account details.
Clicking the 'Login via Twitter' link will redirect you to a page owned by Twitter where you can enter your username and password. Note: we don't ever know what your password is. All we need is the 7 digit number that Twitter gives you which you should enter in the textbox marked 'PIN'. If you keep the 'Follow @tweetpivot' checkbox ticked you'll be able to keep informed about improvements to our service, but you are free to uncheck this. Click OK to move onto the List Selector screen...
If you've already created the list you want to add your selection to, just click OK. Alternatively, click the 'New List' button to create one...
Click OK and TweetPivot will start working. You'll see a 'busy' graphic at the top of the TweetPivot window but you can still continue to manipulate the whole collection you loaded.
Finally, we'll show you a notification window telling you that all the selected users are now in the list. You then have the option to automatically jump to that list on Twitter.com.
We hope you have as much fun using this feature as we had building it!
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