Logged into my Twitter account today to find a new lists feature available to me (it seems it’s not rolled out to everyone yet). Twitter is following the tagging trend and you can now categorize your own Twitter subscriptions. Though similar to Facebook’s feature in allowing you to create lists of friends, I haven’t found the need to read the newsfeed that way. However, being able to create lists allows the sharing of Twitter content of interest to me, just like my delicious bookmarks on travel.

So here’s my Twitter list for Travel (seems it’s not available yet). Now I’m just waiting for TweetDeck to recognize this new feature so that I might start using it to easily automatically filter out the extra tweets and read updates by category.

I could see how it might be useful if others could join lists especially for conferences. For example, I just went to the SIGUCCS conference and the use of Twitter was encouraged and even the closing session speaker posed some reflection questions and asked everyone to tweet their answers. Throughout the conference, I followed the related tweets by monitoring the #siguccs tag via search.twitter.com, but not everyone remembers or knows to include the hash tag. If people were able to join a Twitter list, that would easily aggregate the tweets of the group. However, I could see how this could be another avenue for spam if random Twitter users were able to join any list so there would need to be some sort of moderation available.

On another note, Twitter has gone mobile in Japanese.