Social media is a humbling experience much of the time. For one it is a super fast barometer of many aspects of our digital persona made up partly of a) our online influence, b) what people ‘feel’ about you (sentiment) and c) who we are connected too but more recently with the introduction of Twitter Lists we now have an element of ‘labelling’ aka ‘tagging’. Like most I am not keen on being pigeon holed, filed and rubber stamped as ‘this kind’ of person or someone who only ‘thinks/creates/is involved’ in those things, but I was fascinated this morning in doing what Laurel Papworth did some months ago, looking at how others saw me based only on my Twitter activity.
I have currently been added to 700 lists (which I think is up in the top 10% or so?) –
the key of course is that these lists are created un-prompted by those they follow, they have selected ‘you’ quietly in the background to be a part of a personal filter, carefully structured by users who want a way to distill the vastness of a 140 character universe of noise, that is twitter – making lists for themselves of a few key personal influencers through to hundreds of sharing tweeters across several lists on quite broad topics, the lists themselves followed by thousands.
There were over 6.5 million twitter lists at the start of 2010 so I suspect at least double that for 2011 according to TNW and there are hundreds of tList directories on the web now such as ListAtlas that focuses on the most popular lists such as 22 000 following the @bieberarmy :: justinfollowplease list of 91 fans who “want to be followed” by JB himself or 38 verified world leaders compiled into this list @verified :: World Leaders followed by 15 000 or so. But back to my own little world…I am not sure if the lists below represent ‘who I am’, especially as 75% of my twitter activity is sharing links, but they certainly represent areas I work in and am interested by.
… without further ado – I quickly used TextWrangler to pull out key words and broke the 700 lists (I am on) into smaller ‘categorised’ batches. This serves as a one stop shop for me to dip in and out and decide which lists I will follow and for you to possibly find ones you may find of interest.
What do your lists say about you?
TRANSMEDIA
- http://twitter.com/tlists/transmedia-995 The most listed Tweeters on 37 lists about Transmedia
- http://twitter.com/#!/aliciakan/transmediatweeps Teaching me a little bit more about transmedia, everyday
- http://twitter.com/#!/annabelroux/transmedia
- http://twitter.com/#!/matthanson/screen-bleed Media theories & futures in a multiplatform world.
- http://twitter.com/#!/brand_candy/transmedia-storytelling People interested in transmedia storytelling
- http://twitter.com/#!/bulldogmi/isthistransmedia A list of crossmedia, transmedia and storytelling tweets
- http://twitter.com/#!/Ch_Larue/transmedia
- http://twitter.com/#!/daniele_ferrari/crossmedia-transmedia
- http://twitter.com/#!/DilemmaLA/transmedia
- http://twitter.com/#!/eceilhan/transmedia
- http://twitter.com/#!/FilmThreat/transmedia-artists A self-updating filtered list of people I follow (generated by http://twitter.com/#!/formulists)
- http://twitter.com/#!/FLB_AlainThys/media-innovation tweets about media innovation, crossmedia, transmedia and other interesting media developments
- http://twitter.com/#!/frank_tentler/transmedia-avangard List of Transmedia and Transmedia Storytelling Avangard on Twitter
- http://twitter.com/#!/geoffreylong/transmedia Scholars and practitioners in transmedia.
- http://twitter.com/#!/helloflow/worldoftransmedia all people you want to follow on transmedia storytelling!
- http://twitter.com/#!/ivanovitch/transmedia People working in, interested in, thinking about Transmedia.
- http://twitter.com/#!/jlsimons/transmedia TM
- http://twitter.com/#!/KH_enthu_Ziasm/transmedia well, are you transmedia ready ?
- http://twitter.com/#!/melaniemcbride/gaming-transmedia-10 Makers, observers, researchers and players of games/transmedia.
- http://twitter.com/#!/nouners/transmedia
- http://twitter.com/#!/nwangpr/transmedia This list follows those who are exploring new storytelling opportunities for brands and agencies.
- http://twitter.com/#!/nyuji/transmedia
- http://twitter.com/#!/onceuponaword/transmedia A list of people who regularly tweet smart things on transmedia
- http://twitter.com/#!/pascalmory/transmedia
- http://twitter.com/#!/paulalexgray/transmedia
- http://twitter.com/#!/Pixel8studio/transmedia Stories to be told.
- http://twitter.com/#!/pseudonymDK/transmedia Important people to follow to learn more about transmedia
- http://twitter.com/#!/Sarn/transmedia-2
- http://twitter.com/#!/tactica/transmedia
- http://twitter.com/#!/TedHope/transmedia
- http://twitter.com/#!/WebVideoMedia/transmedia-storytelling
- http://twitter.com/#!/nativeshell/trans-incidental Transmedia news and peeps
NEWER MEDIA
- http://twitter.com/#!/thatgreg/new-media-2 People actively changing the way media is created and ultimately consumed.
- http://twitter.com/#!/chicklitgurrl/new-media-9
- http://twitter.com/#!/ftiwa/new-media
- http://twitter.com/#!/iamlowetion/new-media
- http://twitter.com/#!/Morgan_Flood/new-media
- http://twitter.com/#!/pascalroeyen/new-media
- http://twitter.com/#!/RichGarner/new-media
AUGMENTED REALITY
- http://twitter.com/#!/AaronMarshall/augmented-reality Cool folks tweeting interesting things about Augmented Reality.
- http://twitter.com/#!/ayaLAN/augmented-reality
- http://twitter.com/#!/Balubab/augmented-reality Augmented Reality universe
- http://twitter.com/#!/bobbyverlaan/augmented-reality
- http://twitter.com/#!/BrianSe7en/augmented-reality
- http://twitter.com/#!/chrisgrayson/augmented-reality-peeps People & Companies involved in Augmented Reality, as well as AR Blogs
- http://twitter.com/#!/claudiochea/augmented-reality-ar
- http://twitter.com/#!/fbeeper/augmented-reality
- http://twitter.com/#!/Franck_Briand/augmented-reality
- http://twitter.com/#!/jamesalliban/augmented-reality
- http://twitter.com/#!/renatefischer/ar
- http://twitter.com/#!/konterkariert/augmented-reality
- http://twitter.com/#!/mikeyjhay/augmented-reality
- http://twitter.com/#!/RWW/augmented-reality
- http://twitter.com/#!/eduardovalencia/augmentedreality
- http://twitter.com/#!/tomyun/ar
- http://twitter.com/#!/GaryPHayes/alternate-augmented
- http://twitter.com/#!/siyann/immersive virtual worlds, augmented reality, immersive experiences
- http://twitter.com/#!/dromescu/ar Augmented Reality
- http://twitter.com/#!/jlapoutre/mobile-ar Mobile Augmented Reality
INTERESTING, THOUGHT LEADER & MINDS
- http://twitter.com/#!/_Antonella_/ar-thoughtleaders
- http://twitter.com/#!/9dimension/brightside bright ppl
- http://twitter.com/#!/owlark/interesting-people-a1 Great people: listed or interested
- http://twitter.com/#!/InShot/thought-leadership James Grant Hay’s Thinking Out Aloud
- http://twitter.com/#!/7seashell/interesting-people
- http://twitter.com/#!/torridluna/minds
- http://twitter.com/#!/BlessTheTeacher/interesting-people
- http://twitter.com/#!/CelticWitch99/no-idea-but-interesting
- http://twitter.com/#!/holla_tweet/interesting-ppl
- http://twitter.com/#!/LMurphy140/from-far-far-away non local interesting
- http://twitter.com/#!/ManuCedat/interesting-people
- http://twitter.com/#!/Marcey_H/interesting-people
- http://twitter.com/#!/MikeFreyParadux/bloggers Bloggers! Check these wonderful blogs by interesting tweeps.
- http://twitter.com/#!/OwenKelly/people a miscellaneous assortment of interesting people
- http://twitter.com/#!/paolonieddu/insight-and-cool-shit Links to interesting stuff
- http://twitter.com/#!/robbnotes/interesting
- http://twitter.com/#!/sonjagottschalk/interesting
- http://twitter.com/#!/WayneNH/interesting-watch
