LeWeb conference in Paris was quick to use Twitter hashtags to enable both participants and stay-at-home bloggers to follow the conversation realtime. Unfortunately spammers quickly found out and polluted the stream with their "Teeth Whitening" and MLM messages. Creating "aggregation bots" is not a solution either: if you have a dedicated Twitter account automatically retweet everything with, say, "LeWeb" in it, you just create a lot of echo in the channel.
Earlier this week, Twitter launched the Twitter Lists, who are compiled by users themselves. And in a matter of days, LeWeb organisers (
@Leweb) compiled three textbook examples of handy Twitter lists:
I follow all three of them, and it's a great way to shoot the breeze before actually going to the event. You can immediately see who's the most vocal and what their personal style is. I already see a number of new conversations starting, and suddenly I saw my Twitter follower count shoot over 5,500. So even if there is such a thing as "List Spam" (spammers putting you on lists so you would check out their links), I still think Lists are a great new Twitter feature.
By the way, register for LeWeb if you haven't already - use BLOG09 for a 10% discount.
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