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Last night Twitter (finally) gave me permission to access its new List feature that’s been buzzing around the Twittersphere lately. In a nutshell, Twitter Lists allows a users to create lists of other users … in fact, that’s not in a nutshell; that’s pretty much what the feature does.

Basic, but at the same time quite handy.

Needless to say, the Twitter community has been creating lists like there’s no tomorrow. There’s also a new site called Listoria which showcases the best Twitter lists (apparently, it seems US-centric to me) and where you can submit your own.

Given that on Wednesday I published a blog post which essentially is a list of UK journalists on Twitter it seemed apt to add it use it to create a Twitter List. You can find the UK journalists Twitter List here.

I considered creating individual lists for, say, broadsheet journos, tabloid journos and the like. Thing is, though, people move around and switch jobs so it would quickly go out of date. It would be easy to create a list for individual publications too; such as a Guardian List, Times List, Telegraph List, Sun List and so on but, again, people move around and the publications themselves should own those lists to keep it accurate.