TwitterWe’ve talked about Twit­ter before — we’re on it, of course, as over a thou­sand of you already know. Over time Twit­ter has evolved from a WTF? (back then at the same stage in its life as Google Wave is now) to an indis­pen­si­ble part of our social net­work­ing land­scape.

If you’ve logged on to Twit­ter recent­ly you’ll have seen their newest fea­ture, Twit­ter Lists. These are a way to group up oth­er Twit­ter users, both among the peo­ple you fol­low and the peo­ple you don’t. You might want to group up some of your friends; or make a list of your favourite bands; then you can con­ve­nient­ly view just those tweets from those peo­ple.

Where this becomes inter­est­ing is that it’s pos­si­ble to fol­low oth­er peo­ple’s lists. A nice exam­ple of this is @webstock’s Speak­ers List — a List of speak­ers at past and future Web­stock events. Fol­low­ing this list allows you to immerse your­self in the whole Web­stock vibe, months in advance of the event itself! Very handy.

Of course The Welling­ton­ista is not to be left out of this action. It can be quite hard to find the best peo­ple to fol­low on Twit­ter — so let us do it for you! We have com­piled some must-fol­low Welling­ton-themed lists for you to fol­low, with more on the way.

  • @wellingtonista/team — Us! Or at least, the large sub­set of us who are on Twit­ter. We are, of course, all well worth fol­low­ing indi­vid­u­al­ly, but fol­low­ing the list is prob­a­bly eas­i­er.
  • @wellingtonista/wgtn-music — Local­ly based musi­cians, venues and record shops. Why aren’t there more out there?
  • @wellingtonista/wgtn-theatres — A mix of cin­e­mas and play­hous­es. Good for find­ing out what’s on, and whether there’s any com­pe­ti­tions, spe­cials or oth­er pro­mo­tions run­ning.
  • @wellingtonista/wgtn-food-and-drink — all the cafés, bars, venues, restau­rants and bot­tle­stores we could find. The inter­play between the var­i­ous cafés in par­tic­u­lar is quite nice and col­le­gial and almost war­rants its own List, real­ly.
  • @wellingtonista/wgtn-events — Events. You know what they are: Fes­ti­vals; Mar­kets; Car­ni­vals. And the occa­sion­al, uh, sport­ing event.

Clear­ly these lists could do with a lit­tle fine tun­ing, as well as addi­tions. So let us know!