Twillist is a new site that helps you build sharable list of users on Twitter. You can search from lists that are already created or make some of your very own. Created by Opera New Media along with Pod Consulting, the site launched on October 6th, 2009.
Creating a list is very simple. On the Twillist site, you select create New List, name it and enter the Twitter names of the users you want in the list, then hit Create. Voila! You have an easy to digest stream of information. You can also make a list directly from Twitter just tweet out:
@twillist @name1 @name2 #list-name
Twillist will then tweet you back to a link to your list.
Because you have to sign into to Twitter when connecting with the site, you can easily tweet right from Twillist. You can also browse lists and sort them by newest, most popular and most active. Some of the other features of the site include:
- Browsing users by: Most popular, Most Influential, Most Active
- See what lists you’re included in
- Subscribe to a list and it’s added to your favorite’s section
When you are looking at a list it will not only show you the tweet stream of everyone in that list, but you can easily follow them on Twitter. Once the community starts building a base of lists this could be a great resource for finding someone with a special skill, someone in a specific location, etc. The possibilities are endless, if a list doesn’t exist you can create it. Then you can tweet about it so others know that it’s there.
As reported previously by TechCrunch, Twillist also plans to integrate with the upcoming Twitter list API.
