This morning I took on the task of sorting the 300 people I follow into user lists. Along the way I unfollowed about 25 of them, mostly because I couldn’t think of why I’d followed them in the first place and because I didn’t have a good list to put them on. It took me just a little under two hours.
It shocked me that nobody has invented a tool that allows you to batch-edit your followers and following lists to assign them to lists etc. Wouldn’t you consider this a fairly basic utility?
Now that I can view my Twitter lists in Seesmic Desktop (my Twitter application of choice), I have this vague expectation that Twitter will become more useful to me. The jury is out on that. Maybe I’m missing something but there doesn’t seem to me much going on out there that’s very important to me.
On another social media note… has anyone figured out what to do with LinkedIn yet? Aside from getting connected with everyone you know (and apparently a bunch of people you don’t know, if the trickle of invitations from total strangers is any indication). I joined a few discussion groups and have plenty of connections but I’m still waiting for the A-HA! moment and the value to be realized. Please, if you’ve got some secret to making LinkedIn more than just a business-oriented, slightly less-annoying Facebook, please comment!
Tags: social media, technology
