Twitter Lists: Only You Can Help Mashable Beat Barack Obama :)

November 1st, 2009 admin

Twitter opened up Twitter Lists this week, allowing users to create their own “follow lists” of their favorite Twitter accounts. Todd Zeigler tallied the early stats this morning and found that – yowzers – our own humble @mashable account was the second most-listed on Twitter, trailing behind @barackobama . Obviously ranking on a list that includes President Obama is more to do with our super-supportive Twitter community than actually having anywhere near the influence of a world leader. And it’s a position that isn’t holding late in the day: as more mainstream users get to grips with …


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