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Twitter has started rolling out a new lists feature that allows users to compile useful groupings of tweeps and share them. This is a feature that third party applications like Seesmic and Tweetdeck have offered for some time. Twitter has basically standardized the function for app developers and provided an API that could help all parties.

Shea Bennett of Twittercism poses the question: can we finally get rid of #followfriday. Shea might be onto something, however, one shouldn't overlook the personal nature of #followfriday. It's not just about finding followers. Many use the meme to publicly recognize others and engage them.

Will we see #followfriday disappear, stay the same or become something different? What do you think. Feel free to let us all know by leaving a comment.

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Seesmic Desktop

A desktop client to manage your lifestream from Facebook & multiple Twitter accounts. Create groups and searches and view them any way you like.

I don't usually do recommendations online, but this time I'm going to make an exception. There are a lot of great 3rd party Twitter apps out there - Tweetdeck, DestroyTwitter...plus more corporate/business apps like Hootsuite and CoTweet (especially helpful for managing multiple accounts). My personal favorite right now? Seesmic Desktop.

Seesmic is from internet entrepreneur Loic Le Meur, and the one thing that impresses me is the emphasis on customer service. The client itself is great - I can group contacts from both Twitter and Facebook into userlists, save searches, and more. But the customer service, at least as I've experienced thus far, is superb. Several times I've sent tweets to Seesmic's Twitter accounts (@seesmic, @askseesmic), not expecting to get any sort of response to my suggestions on how to improve the service. Without fail, they've tweeted me back within the hour. Great stuff.