This document serves as a comprehensive guide to Twitter lists, detailing how to create and manage them. Users can organize their connections, monitor competitors, and showcase their expertise through public lists. It also explains how to remove oneself from lists while keeping the option to stay connected with the list owner.

1. Really Useful Guide to Twitter Lists

2. Introduction
Contents
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Create Twitter Lists
Managing Twitter Lists
Add followers to Lists
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Monitoring your competition
Demonstrating your expertise
Remove yourself from Lists

3. Why use Lists
Twitter Lists are a really useful way to organise
your connections and to ensure you do not
miss out on interesting tweets
Twitter’s recent upgrade allows you to create
up to 1,000 Lists. Each List can contain 5,000
accounts.

4. Create Your List
 Go to the Lists page
 Click Create List
 Enter the name of your List
 Decide if you want your List private or public
 Save your List

5. Add Followers to your List
 Click on your List of Followers
 Select the follower
 Click on the drop down icon
 Select Add or remove from Lists
 Tick the Lists you would like to
add the user to
 Close the List box

6. Private Twitter Lists to monitor competitors
It can be useful to create private Lists of your
competitors.
You can monitor this List to see your
competitor’s latest tweets.
You can add a profile to your List without
following them.
This can give you a real insight or even some
inspiration.

7. Public Twitter Lists to demonstrate expertise
Public Lists are a great way to demonstrate
your connections or expertise.
Add some thought leaders or influencers
Give the List an appropriate name, such as
Start-Up Experts or Influential Educators
There is a real value in aligning yourself with
this type of List
It also enhances your authority in the sector

8. To Remove Yourself from a List
From your Twitter profile, click on Lists.
Click on Member Of.
You will then see the Twitter Lists that include you as
a member.
Click on the List owner to see the profile
 Click on Block, this will remove you from any Lists
If you want to stay in touch with the person, you can
then Unblock them

9. Really Useful Guide to Twitter Lists
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