Mrs. Opinion

Follow mrs_opinion on Twitter

I joined Twitter on April 1. I was going to sign up sooner, but the name I wanted (mrsopinion) was already taken. I sent a quick email to Twitter about the name since the person who was using that name hasn’t tweeted in a couple of years. But, unfortunately, Twitter has no current plans to let old names expire. So, I had to sign up as mrs_opinion.

I started writing little tweets right away and following other people through their blog links. Most followed me back within a reasonable amount of time. I slowly began to socialize with them by responding to a few tweets here and there. I put the twitter app on my phone too and I’m really starting to have fun with it.

Twitter has a list feature, so last night, I created a couple of lists and added a few of the people I’ve tweeted with into the lists. It seemed to me that the whole point was to group people into different categories so that I could visit only those types of tweets when I wanted to.

Well, I had it half right. Yes, I can group people into lists based on the content of their tweets. And, yes, it makes it easier if I want to just look at tweets for, say, parenting advice. But, there is a little more to it than that.

I can choose to make my list private or public. If the list is private, no one but myself knows of the list – not even the people on it. If I make it public, the whole world can not only see my list, but they can choose to follow my list as well. The best part is that you can follow the list without having to follow everyone on the list. So, you can end up following a whole bunch of lists that other people created without having to worry about hundreds of other tweets filling up your main timeline. How nice is that?