It's been quite a while since Twitter unleashed lists and I'm finding them quite useful for organizing the accounts and people I follow.
TwitHive - an excellent web application for Twitter - has been providing list-like functionality since long before lists came to be. Lists made it a commodity and as it stands now most Twitter clients allow us to access the content we care about naturally via channels.
Which brings us to the current day and makes me think about something very similar to lists but serving a totally different purpose - the ability to split the content I create into separate slices, or categories, so that the people following me can choose either to follow the stream in its entirety or to limit themselves to just a subset of it. In this setup when I configure a new service to auto-post my content to Twitter I'll choose whether I want to post to the "raw" stream or to a particular "category" so that only people following that category of mine will get the update. This way I'll be able to easily separate my lunch-time musings from Android developer tips and such.
Wishful thinking? Sure enough. Yet we all know that Twitter growth has flattened recently and they must be on a desperate search of ways to turn the situation around. Categories might be a step in the right direction.
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