AlexSchleber’s Quick Hits Business Mindhacks

josh_wills: @Scobleizer I see you tweeting about lists alot, but I don't see that you get why it's important. hint: it's not the filtering.

about 12 hours later from web · Reply · View Tweet

Scobleizer: @josh_wills OK, you hooked me. What's important about lists in your view?

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josh_wills: @Scobleizer they're hyperlinks w/anchor text. Anchor text is *really* important for search.

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josh_wills: @Scobleizer twitter democratized publishing. Now they've democratized linking. Real-time linking for anyone = Better RT search.

less than a minute later from web · Reply · View Tweet

josh_wills: @Scobleizer bloggers begging for lists == bloggers begging for links.

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josh_wills: @Scobleizer good article. I bet twitter's (eventual) pro accounts will let you create more than 20 lists.

I realized only tonight that Twitter had made List names into clickable links inside of tweets when I came across a Mashable tweet that included "@mashable/mashable". I immediately went searching for when this was first discovered, Scobel had a tweet about it from Friday afternoon which I had missed before.

Here is a Twitter Search for the phrase:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=+%22link+to+lists%22

Since there is no way to search Twitter with full REGEX there is likely no way to search for the first tweet using the new convention (with something like @[^/]/[^ ] ).

More than likely it would have come from one of Twitter's developers. But at least neither @twitter, @ev, or @biz had anything about this convention in the last 9 days.

The points made by @josh_willis could indeed be huge. The entire Twitter ecosystem has suddenly changed, and we likely haven't thought of all the consequences yet.

(Also see: "Why Twitter Lists Change Everything - Dave Troy" http://bit.ly/4bm3ke )