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!