Twitter Blog: Soon to Launch: Lists

Twitter's features seem to be focused on continuously mashing, stirring up, and re-presenting the same old content over and over again rather than change or add things that provide real utility to users and the platform. So now I can organize all the unorganizable tweets; big deal: I still can't easily follow a conversation through the shitty @reply link-hell. This is a much bigger UX nightmare than not being able to group the people I'm subscribed to. Another way they encourage rehashing the same stuff is by lessening the visibility of people's favorited tweets, thereby encouraging retweeting, which doesn't add significant new content, nor makes available space for new content. With such a big valuation and so much money in the bank, users should expect more. Us armchair CEOs sit around and, rightfully, wonder at twitter's lack of monetization not because it's so distinctly doesn't exist but because twitter provides nothing else compelling to talk about.

this feature to me feels bloatly and unnecessary.

The beauty of Twitter is in its simplicity and in users' ability to completely personalize their account. I'm compelled to access my account because I know the sources of the content I'll find there were hand-selected by me and relevant to my unique interests.

I was under the assumption that most users have issues with following too MANY people and having trouble keeping up with 'the stream'. It could be argued that it's the fear of missing twitter updates that keeps people glued to the service (and other real-time status services). If such is the case, do users really need another way to clog up their stream and pull attention away from their real-life friend/family's updates - the ones that "really" matter?

While I could see the Lists concept being useful to new users who'd like a jumpstart into the 'twitterverse', doesn't Twitter already suggest popular twitterers to follow during account registration?

It seems to me that Twitter should be spending its time adding more languages/international support as well as figuring out how to better deal with spammers - instead of building new features that only select power-users will take advantage of and that will confuse more people than they benefit.

This is an interesting way to do categorization.