Twitter Lists...What do YOU Think?

We all navel gaze in the era of the social web.

I remember I used to check my stats when I started blogging and obviously that happened on Twitter for a while as well.

I don’t check my personal Twitter stats anymore, but I do want to know everything about Stocktwits and companies I have invested money with.

When asked, I always tell people that you must be willing to be UNfollowed and UNread when you blog and tweet. In the stock market it is called ‘backing and filling’. It’s a healthy thing. In fact, I lost two followers from my last tweet and it feels great:

Last week, Twitter lists launched. I believe the web of the future is all about discovery and filters. The seduction of attention has created a massive spam problem. No offense to Twitter follower leaders Ashton Kutcher, Dell and CNN, but you just won’t say anything of interest for me to follow and there is NO way Twitter is working properly for Web 4.1654 if you are.

Twitter Lists seems like a step in the right direction. I really like this post by Todd Zeigler on how twitter lists can be used to judge influence .

I know for Stocktwits it was very important to us to suggest people to follow the first time they show up. Curated lists will always be flawed because great people will be missed and left off, but it’s a start.

I/We at Stocktwits are open to all suggestions.