It’s been a while since I blogged about Twitter, but now Twitter has lists. I know. Lists. Be still my wildly beating heart!
It works like this. You group the people you follow into lists and then you can, at a glance, see what all the writers you follow are talking about. And all the lawyers. And the foodies. And the lawyers who are also foodies. You’d be surprised. There are a lot of those! I have a whole complicated, very mathematical theory about why lawyers might be inclined to cook gourmet foods. The first line of my theory looks like this: 1 − (x2/2!) + (x4/4!) − + …, where ! denotes factorial. But I’ll go over that in a later post because this post is about… ummm…
Oh yes, lists! So I haven’t put anyone I follow into a list yet. I will… when NaNoWriMo’s over and I can get TWO SECONDS TO THINK, PLEASE!
Oops, sorry. Little nano crazy there. I’m fine now.
I love the lists I’m on. Most of them, 22 out of 35 are “Writer” or “NaNoWriMo” lists. That’s cool, because on bad days, I need the external validation. Yes, j, you’re a writer, because if you weren’t, smart people would not put you on their writing lists. (Thank you smart people!) Here are the other lists I’m on (some of which I’m so proud of I could burst.)
- Great writers (Okay, yes, that is technically a writer list too, but it has the word “great” in it. Makes me giddy.)
- Hot-thinking-babes
- Without whom I’d perish
- Favs
- Hilarious Friends
- People who make me snort
- Amazing women
- Keen
- Quickquide
- Good in bed
- Superstars
- Wordsmiths
- Tweeter pals
That is an awesome list of lists to be on. And it got me thinking about how fun it would be to just have lists for all my friends and family. Like all you guys could definitely be on a list titled “These are the androids I want.” Or maybe (for you non-Star Wars fans) “Better than chocolate.”
I like thinking of list titles. I think everyone I know could fit into one of these three lists:
- People I would go on vacation with
- People I wouldn’t go on vacation with
- People about whom I’m unsure on the vacation question
See? It’s fun. You should try it. Let me know what list I’m on, and feel free to comment with your great list name ideas.
O….Kay…….
hmmm…
Are the lists self nominated? Or does there have to be some sort of tangible evidence?
I mean I totally get you being on the great writers list, the hot babe list, people who make me snort list…. can see other people nominating you for those….
but the good in bed list? um…. I have several DOZEN questions…..
[oh and twitter is still the work of the devil]
:0)
but you’d be on my
“miss you if I go six hours without contact list”
Is there one of those?
or would that just be filed under “stalking” ?
Karen, Well, as the work of the devil, tangible evidence is totally beside the point, but I’m choosing to think that some facts are just obvious. (Laughing as I type.) I am proud to be on your “Miss You” list. Maybe we need a “People I’d Totally Stalk” list. :-) You’d be on my “Blinded by your sparkle list,” among others.
Awww….that’s nice. I like being sparkly.
[and I laughed at some things being self evident...sex appeal....brocolli....two things that can never be denied]
I actually have a photo of a *sparkly* tiara as part of my post today and I’m not even kidding.
I want one in my size…. the one I saw was too sma….. um…I mean….I’m assuming that it would have been too small for my head…it’s not like I stole it right off the head of the little girl and ran away with it or anything….[honest]
Hmmm, I think I will place you into these lists on twitter…
– Friends that look good in green
– Super self-confident group
– Writers named Judy
– Writers named Judy that know how to make cheesecake
– Writers named Judy that I will be going on vacation with
– Song Girl Posse
– Stalkables
OK, I need to go. I am honoring the release of Sarah Palin’s new book today by Going Commando… what? …oh, really?! …I was just told that her book is called, “Going Rogue”. I sure hope it means the same thing since I am sort of committed to the whole ‘going commando’ concept for the day!
Karen, yeah… I was wondering how you got such a lovely picture of that poor little girl’s glasses! Where’s the goat pic, baby?
Bobby, If you add “the best ever” before “cheesecake” then I could be the sole member of that list! Woo hoo! I am going to put you on my “Distracted by Commando Thing” list. And, in my humble opinion, Sarah doesn’t deserve you!
Mind is racing. I will send you a list of lists I could put you on soon. :-)
Well…believe it or not I did try to take a pic of the goats..had my window down and everything with my camera out the window at the stop light……but then the light changed and they got on the highway. I didn’t think it was worth it to go out of my way in the HOPE of capturing a goat photo…laughing…so you just have to use your imagination.
Addition to my twitter lists above:
– Writers named Judy that know how to make the best ever cheesecake while writing 6,000 words a day during vacation in Barbados wearing green in the most self-confident manner!
hmmm, I wonder if that will fit in the list profile!?!?
If I ever get around to making Twitter lists, you will certainly be on at least one.
I just checked and I am on 9 lists … clearly I am not as popular as you. That does not surprise me. :-)
Bobby, PERFECT!
Linda, I tweet more than you. I’m a compulsive tweeter, and those awesome lists are only encouraging me. And since you have to see all my 140-character outbursts, I will add you to the J Gives Good Apology list from yesterday. ;-)
Oh, no, don’t apologize. Your tweets are wonderful! If they ever give Twoscars or Twemmys or something, I’m sure you’ll win.
I am leery of making lists.
I got put on a “people who spam”. I was offended because *I* didn’t spam, my account did. I got hijacked and someone sent spam from my account to as many people as Twitter would allow a DM to be sent to. Other people were nice enough to ask me, but noooooooOOooo that person just put me on a list I thought was rude!
So for now I am just adding people to my “quickquide” list because there are some people I like to look at but don’t always see and/or I can’t remember their Twitter name. I am hoping that one day I will come up with a few nice names for lists and then be able to start separating people out. But I haven’t given it much thought yet.
I think that I will just copy some of the list names from here. I really love “Blinded by your sparkle”.
Thank you, Linda! :-)
Terre, Yikes! I keep hearing about everyone’s Twitter (and even blogs) getting hacked into. Scary. I’m sorry. I’ve never gotten any spam from you for what that’s worth. I’d put you on my “Wrongly Accused” list, but only if you’re also on the Sparkly one.