Hello Tuesday!

Let’s talk about Twitter Lists today.

If you are reading this, it concerns even you

You’ve probably heard the term before or seen it in your settings, but what does it mean?

Twitter Lists are simply a list of curated group of Twitter accounts.

You can have various lists according to interest - partnerships, clients, competition, events, prospects etc.

But why is this important?
If you use this app you’d have noticed how it has quickly become a hub for news, business, activism, networking and everything community building. Twitter lists allows you to group accounts into groups with common interest.

This will enable you to learn, monitor and inspire you to create your own content. Here is the catch - you don’t need to create your own Lists if you don’t want, you could simply follow another person’s.
For example, I am interested in tech news and I noticed that Auntie Becky..

...has finely created Lists on tech and other topics so I just followed them (without necessarily following the individual accounts). This is powerful!
If you created a list called “competition” for example, you know that any tweet from here is mainly 4 monitoring not engaging.

I brought it up because I noticed that a lot of us could use this app for good along side entertainment. I manage @AfritechHub and created a list called “opportunities “ made up of accounts that posts scholarships, conferences and competitions opportunities for Africans.

This list has 322 followers of which 80% are Nigerians even though we engage mostly with Cameroonian accounts (because proximity which is bullshit, I know). My point is, you won’t easily pick up information, for instance, that the Tony Elumelu Foundation for entrepreneurs...

...opened applications if you didn’t consciously put this under your radar or any other information that could be useful to you.

If you found this interesting, we could talk about how to view, follow and create a List tomorrow.

Love.

Sabine