Twitter Lists and Your iPhone: Twittelator Pro Update Brings List Support

Not too long ago, Twitter started to integrate a services called “Lists”. This new feature brings a plethora of new ways to follow and will actually help keep your clutter apart, and even find new followers.

The idea is to allow people to curate lists of Twitter accounts. For example, you could create a list of the funniest Twitter accounts of all time, athletes, local businesses, friends, or any compilation that makes sense. I love lists for the idea of developers, or designers, or even particular people you’d like to organize together into one bunch.

From theAppleBlog:

Twittelator Pro is the first iPhone client to use the new Lists API. Using the app, you can now create or edit your own lists, view the lists of other users, and follow or unfollow lists. It’s a nice alternative to client-based groups, and it’s especially convenient on the iPhone platform, since it makes Twitter’s information glut a little more digestible.

The update also brings some more list-centric new discovery tools, like suggestions, featured, random, and list searching so that you can explore beyond your own network. It’s actually got me looking around at lists, which is more than I’ve done since Twitter implemented the feature. As a way of finding new people to follow, or of locating good thematically grouped news sources all in one place, the search function is especially helpful.

Here’s a list of some of the other new features introduced in version 3.4:

• Reply All – Tap the user avatar next to the tweet to reply to all mentioned.
• What the Trend? – Provides an explanation for why a topic is trending.
• Search Nearby shows avatars on map pins
• Emailing a link uses the web page title as the message subject by default

Twittelator Pro sells for $4.99 in the App Store. It’s a very feature-rich piece of software, but a little too busy for my tastes. If you’re a TweetDeck desktop user, it’ll probably be more to your liking.

Want to learn more about Lists and how to use them? Mashable has a great tutorial.