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I’m pretty excited about a new Twitter tool I discovered last week called Formulists.

Formulists creates a variety of self updating Twitter lists based on how you interact with other Twitter users.

I’ve recently gotten to the point where I’m following enough people on Twitter that one of my other favorite Twitter tools, Tweetdeck, was starting to have issues with how many tweets it was trying to load at one time. Formulists lets me break down my “All Friends” column into smaller chunks based on how I’m interacting with other users so that those users I am interacting with don’t get lost.

I’m loading each of my Formulists as it’s own column in Tweetdeck with those I’m most closely interacting with on the left and those that I’m less personal with to the right so I’m keeping my priorities on the left and then scrolling over as I have some free time and want to check out what else is going on.

A good example of a list I’ve created with Formulists is a list that updates itself each day to display all the users who followed me within the last 7 days. I’ve also got lists for people I’ve recently @ messaged, retweeted, followed, people who’ve listed me, people who’ve retweeted me, people I’m often listed with, people that people I follow @ message with, and people who I follow who don’t follow me back.

For now I’ve made all my lists public since I see that benefiting me in that I’d show up in the “listed-me” column for other Formulists users which is a change of pace for me since historically I’ve kept most of my lists private.

Have you tried Formulists? Are you going to now? What are your thoughts on tools like this? And how do you keep up with following thousands of other Twitter users?

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