To get started with Lists, simply click “Create a new list”.  Give your list a name, and mark it as public or private.

To add people to your lists, simply click the “Lists” button on your “Following” page and choose the proper List. Or click the “Lists” button on their profile page.

You can see your created lists, create new lists, see who is following your lists and which other lists you’re following by clicking on the “Listed” link on your profile page.  This will take you to the page seen below.

To read more about this visit the official twitter blog on lists

]]> http://360phppros.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/twitter-lists/feed/ 0 360phppros twitter-lists-announcement twitter-lists-lists-you-follow twitter-lists-profile-add-to-list twitter-lists-where-am-i-listed twitter-lists-lists-you-follow twitter-lists-lists-you-follow http://360phppros.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/bing-indexing-twitter-and-facebook-statuses/ http://360phppros.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/bing-indexing-twitter-and-facebook-statuses/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:09:56 +0000 360phppros http://360phppros.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/bing-indexing-twitter-and-facebook-statuses/ ]]> Bing has just announced a beta Bing search of the public Twitter stream. So far it looks pretty sweet. Two things in particular that I’ve noticed that make it nicer than the default Twitter search:

1.) When you search for an item, twitter shows you the results. But, when more tweets are posted that should show up in the results, you are only shown a notification “23 more items have been posted”. However, with Bing’s search, the items are update ajax-style “real-time”.

2.) For a few of the major url shortening services, Bing actually displays the domain name of the destination url. I’ve noticed this for the default shortener bit.ly and tl.gd (Twit Longer). Doesn’t appear to do this for tinyurl or the now defunct tr.im.

My big interest in this search engine is in the hopes that they will allow API calls that aren’t limited like Twitter’s rate-limited API.

If you use Twitter and ever find yourself searching for something, I definitely recommend giving Bing a try. http://qr4.us/bingtwit

To read more about the Twitter Search beta release visit http://qr4.us/bingtwitinfo

It appears that Microsoft will not be satisfied simply with Twitter’s status updates, apparently they are leveraging their $240 million investment in Facebook to get the upper hand on showing status updates in Bing. Read more at http://qr4.us/bingfb