Twitter Realeased its Immensely Useful Spam Report and List Feature

Whats in the current news. Its Twitter again. Lately Twitter is doing a lot of stuffs . And this time they released two new features. Just few days ago it enabled its users to report Spam Twitter Accounts. I normally used to block spammers but now I can also report about them. Previously if you wanted to report a Spam Account you had to DM and follow the Twitter Spam Watch Account. That was too much of bother but with release of this new feature we can stop the spammers. I believe this is a very useful feature. Whats your say?

In addition to the above feature, Twitter released one more feature called Twitter List. Its a very simple yet powerful feature. Now you can make a list out of people you follow on Twitter. You can group people as you wish. For example you can make a list of all blogger you know on Twitter. You can see the tweets from them when you visit the list. Imagine you make a list of close friends. You will never miss their tweets in the mess of other tweets.

If you have ever used Tweet Deck, then you will be knowing about the grouping feature in it. Twitter List Feature is basically the same thing with an addition of people being able able to see and follow your list. Setting up a list is very simple. Currently, the homepage features a Lists banner that allows you to start simply by clicking on the “Create a new list” button. Once you do this, an overlay appears and you just type in the list name (which Twitter then converts into a permalink twitter.com/USERNAME/LISTNAME), and set the list to be public or private. Private list can only be seen by you.

On the right hand column of your Twitter homepage, you will see a new “lists” area under your bio. Clicking on this will take you to your list overview page where you can manage your own lists, as well as see other user’s public lists that you are a part of. Also, on user profile pages you will see that the users’ lists are now listed under the “Favorites” area in the right hand toolbar.

There is one thing to note, the list you make are not totally public. To view any list you need to be loged into your Twitter account. I do not know why this restriction was made. We will know more in future. I have already started building some lists. Currently they are private but some public list from me will come soon too. What do you think about this feature? Is it of any use to you?