Now first off I want to say that I understand not everyone has the new Twitter lists yet. The microblogging site has been slowly rolling them out over the past few days. Those lucky few that do have them, enjoyed playing around with the new feature. As most of us tend to let our followings swell, this is a great way to have some volume control on your stream.

However after using the feature for a few days, I can’t help but notice some ways it could greatly be improved. Since the slow roll out seems to show a buffer for feedback I thought I would offer mine. Off we go!

Listability

Right off the bat you’ll find it’s not that easy to add people to lists. You either have to be on their profile page or some type of followers/following list to add them. In other words, you can’t add someone directly to a list when viewing said list. This results in a lot of hunting around and digging to find everyone you want to add to a list. Would be better to start typing names here and quickly building out the list.

You Autocomplete Me

Autocomplete is probably one the greatest inventions, right up there with the Snuggie. I’d love the ability to not only start typing names on a list but also get a populated drop down as I type. You see this feature on sites like Facebook and Google but not so much on Twitter. I just want to quickly throw out names of people who are either smart or good enough looking to make my various lists and add them right there.

Suggested User List of Lists

While the SUL or Suggested User List is already a controversial topic, I’d love to see some suggested lists to get me started. Since you can follow other peoples lists, it would be nice to see examples right off the bat. In some cases it may even save you the trouble of building that ultimate (and not doubt social media related) list that already exists.

Rankings

One really cool feature about Twitter lists is how they expose not only who is following a list, but how many in total are following a given list. So it makes sense that Twitter or a 3rd party might want to rank this data in some way. It would be interesting to see which lists have the largest following and perhaps find some new lists to follow.

If you’ve been using Twitter lists what do you think so far? And what does this mean for some of the recent 3rd party Twitter lists sites like Twillist and Mixtweet?