Thursday, May 30, 2013
Before today, users could only make 20 lists on the social network. But now, they can create up to 1,000 lists that each include 5,000 accounts.
Aiming to please those power tweeters, Twitter announced Thursday that it's expanding its list feature. Now users can make up to 1,000 lists that can each include 5,000 accounts.
This is a significant increase -- before today people could only have 20 lists, each with up to 500 accounts.
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Twitter launched its lists feature in 2009 amid much fanfare. The long-awaited feature let users group Twitter accounts together for easy filtration. For example, people could create lists of all of news organizations they follow or tech gurus or quirky ones like food trucks. Without lists, streams of tweets were sometimes impossible to keep up with.
By default, lists are public (although private ones can be created), so they can be shared with anyone on Twitter. Other users can then subscribe directly to any public list if they are interested.
CNET contacted Twitter for more information and we'll update the story when we hear back.
Via The Next Web.
