List Atlas is a powerful tool for helping you IDENTIFY groups of potential friends on Twitter. It’ll show you the most followed lists (at the moment they have 250 people on the list; those folks probably represent significant “centers of influence” in their respective fields).
More importantly, ListAtlas is a powerful Twitter list search engine. Let’s say you’re interested in connecting with Republican politicians (there’s a list of lists for that) or Democrat politicians (there’s a list of lists for that, too). You’ll need to experiment with your keywords. For instance, searching by “Democrat” yielded only one Twitter list; searching by “Democrats” returned eight.
Let’s say you’re looking for something a little more uplifting: here’s a list of lists for SCUBA (I wanted “skydiving” or “skydivers,” but ListAtlas doesn’t have any lists for them yet. What’s up with that?).
Twitter lists are beginning to open up doors of opportunities for identifying groups of people who might enjoying following or at least watching. It’s an imprecise science at the moment, but it’s a step in the right direction.
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I agree that lists are a powerful way to search for both good content and opportunities. I like Listorious better though (http://listorious.com/). There is more depth to the discussion. I’m waiting patiently for an annotated list feature. I’d like to know why some people are listed.
That’s a good point: having annotated lists would add significant value to the feature. If we could combine delicious with Twitter lists, that’d be something.
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I agree that lists are a powerful way to search for both good content and opportunities. I like Listorious better though (http://listorious.com/). There is more depth to the discussion. I'm waiting patiently for an annotated list feature. I'd like to know why some people are listed.