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Twitter expanded the testing of new ‘Lists’ feature to 5% of the Twitter users. It plans to roll out the feature to all Twitter users in the coming weeks. I am one of the lucky ones to get this feature.

It was first announced by Twitter about 3 weeks ago and today it expanded this feature to more people.

Lists is a way to organize your followers or followings in smaller groups. You can either create a private list, which is only accessible by you, or can make your list public for others to follow as well. You can also follow lists made public by other users.

Nick Kallen, the project lead on Twitter Lists, said in a blog earlier, “The idea is to allow people to curate lists of Twitter accounts. For example, you could create a list of the funniest Twitter accounts of all time, athletes, local businesses, friends, or any compilation that makes sense.”

The stats under the user name (on the right side) shows that how many times an account has been listed. That means, the lists are linked to users’ profiles. Users visiting your profile would be able to see lists you follow and the lists which follow you.

Twitter expanded it to a small group of users, so if you happen to visit any List’s page you’ll probably see the error as  below.

People had been using different services and softwares to organize their gigantic followers and followings list. I believe it will not only help people organize their lists and help find new interesting accounts but also will help in finding targeted or focused users based on interests or niche.