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How to organize your twitter list with formulists

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As your followers grow, your timeline might be more crowded, and ultimately, make reading tweets more challenging.

Previously, I recommended a tool called research.ly, which was a paid tool that allowed users to search a particular topic in their followers and see their tweets. Another method to have a more targeted tweet is to manually list your Twitter followers. This way you can just look at the list and have a more organized category of followers. However, organizing your Twitter followers is tough to accomplish, especially if you have a sizeable amount of followers. Furthermore, questions might arise regarding how accurate your categorization of your followers is, because if your categorization is inaccurate, then your list might be even less efficient. From this point of view, I believe that Twitter could learn a lot from Google Plus’ drag and drop feature.

Assuming you don’t have the time to list your Twitter followers as you have a hectic schedule and barely have enough time to tweet (moreover you have maybe a couple of hundred to a few thousand followers), then I recommend that you look at formulists.com– a tool that makes this process a lot easier and allow you to concentrate on the most important aspect of Twitter, building relationships. 

With Formulists, you can instantly and automatically generate a variety of lists such as:

  • A list of people who retweeted you
  • list of people who you’ve recently engage with
  • track people who have just followed you
  • list of people who retweets you often
  • clone and copy other existing list
  • etc

The best part of this is it automatically updates the list. Therefore you don’t have to do anything to recognize and include the followers who should be newly included in your lists. You can respond to your followers as usual and they will be automatically listed under “people who you’ve recently engage with.” Therefore when you have time, you can drop by the list and look at the people who have taken the time to engage with you and comment on their tweet back. This makes building relationships easier and more efficient, as you are less likely to miss on the people who want to get to know you and have taken the trouble to engage you in a conversation.

Recently formulists have updated and added more features. Soon, you’ll be able to track other Twitter users’ followers which are most active and who are their top retweeters. This helps you gain more information and follow quality followers.

Once you have selected the type of lists that you want to create, formulists will do the work for you. Best part about it is you can load the lists to your tweetdeck, hootsuite or cotweet browser. Oh, and did I mention that it’s FREE? 🙂

Have you tried it yet? Let us know what do you think about it.

by curiousmess

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  1. Fantastic timing for this post, my original manual twitter lists are so out of date i have just started to make a spreadsheet of who i’m following so i can recategorise them, hopefully fomulists can save me some time. First list i’m going to create is to track and greet new followers – i have been wondering for a while how to keep up with new followers and send dm thanks for following messages – perfect!

  3. Hello Loiuse,

    You can do that and save tons of time for sure, the one I love the most is listing people who I have recently engaged with. Certainly helps a lot.

    Enjoy! You can send @formulists a tweet if you have any questions.

    Glad this article helps.

    Cheers
    Aaron

  6. Thanks Nity!

    I have more amazing startups and great services to recommend in the future.

    Have been engaging with a few and trying them out.

    Cheers, hope this helps.

    Aaron

  10. Gr8 post Aaron.. thanks for sharing..
    I loved the part of “what are you goals on twitter” i think that we don’t even think about it when we manage our relationships online… and its good to think about it 🙂

    Thanks for sharing,
    Sharel

  12. Thanks so much for writing this awesome post, Aaron! We are pretty excited about our recent features and some exciting new ones coming up. As you mentioned to Louise we are also really happy to answer any questions- both on Twitter or comments here 🙂

  13. Hey Aaron 🙂
    I’ve tried Formulists by creating a Twitter List for my new followers and hence many of my new followers thank me through DM and mentions. This doesn’t end here , I often check that list and if I find quality tweeps directly upgrade them to my “Follow Friday Forever” List 🙂

    Formulists initially allows you to create 2 Lists and to create more you’ve to invite other tweeps ;D [Tell a Friend type Marketing ;)]

    Happy Blogging 🙂

  17. Thanks Natalie, I am excited to write a follow up of all the list I’ll be making, still have two, need to delete some of it lol to make space for new list from Formulists 🙂

  19. Indeed! I’ve been utilizing this for a while now, glad you’re using it too and you’re using it strategically too, lots can follow that for sure!

  21. Thanks Aaron!

    It’s definitely a good tool. Your own lists created using formulists are good examples (specially the super-sidekicks one 😀 )

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