This post isn’t to show you how to setup lists in each of these tools but I will provide links to help you at the end of the post. So why am I showing you all of this? Because having a humongous follower count brings with it a tidal wave of data. It is becoming pretty clear that being followed alone isn’t enough anymore. If you want to be heard I think it’s going to become increasingly important to make it onto people’s lists.

A few months back I read a great post by Mike Fruchter titled My State of Social Media. In it Mike talks about the race to gain followers and states that “Lists are now the tool of choice for fake following”. While I disagree and feel that list management can be used in a way to follow a larger audience, it does glean perspective on whether or not people who follow you nowadays are listening.

A good post on how to know more about those people supposedly following you. I wrote a post along this topic before.