(If I could edit my original post, I&#x27;d change &quot;better off&quot; to &quot;should also&quot;. I didn&#x27;t mean to say that the use of lists and an algorithmic news feed is an either-or proposition.)<p>I agree with you, and think your examples from fb and G+ are compelling. Anything that adds entropy for the user is a hard-if-not-impossible sell. In reflecting on all this, I realized I like lists because they make twitter useful. News feeds, by contrast, make social media entertaining. So: where do the twain meet? I&#x27;d suggest two models: &quot;smart&quot; lists and curated lists.<p>A real world example of smart lists would be feedly. When I add an RSS feed to my account, feedly suggests a category for it. I&#x27;d say the suggested categories are accurate 80%+ of the time. 
If twitter were to implement this so when you follow someone twitter automatically suggests a list you could add the person to, it would both benefit the follower (I have topic-based lists I can look at, and I didn&#x27;t have to do anything!) and the person being followed (hey, I got a new follower!).<p>Curated lists could be straight up useful (list-lover that I am, I subscribe to some other users&#x27; lists). With the advent of Moments, it&#x27;s clear twitter is open to curation; how about encouraging individual to provide curated lists?<p>I don&#x27;t think that twitter will go the way of focusing on lists, but I think there could be significant value in simply making lists a bit more prominent.