I think twitter would be better off embracing lists.<p>I follow relatively few people because of the firehose effect. My attitude towards the people I follow is that I like seeing their tweets, but I don&#x27;t really care if I miss them. News would be a good example of this. It&#x27;s great to get news or sports tweets in the moment, but they&#x27;re probably not tweets I&#x27;m going to go back through later to find out what happened.<p>On the other hand, I have a number of lists, whose members I do not follow, but whose members tweets I do want to see. I probably spend more time in these lists than I do on my timeline. The lists are for specific types of information (&quot;must reads&quot;, &quot;python&quot;, &quot;humor&quot;). The more focused (fewer people in) the list, the more I value not missing the tweets.<p>The twitter app makes lists very inconvenient to get to, which is too bad. I like the moments feature, but wind up using Tweetbot (or another alternative app) because I want easy access to my lists.