So my Twitter Lists feature has just been enabled, and I spent a couple of days going through the people I follow on Twitter and organizing most of them into groups, in such a way that might be useful for YOU if you’re just starting out on Twitter, or just looking to expand the group of people you follow (which likely means some of these will follow you back!). Rohit Bhargava has a really good post on what Twitter Lists are all about from a marketing/business perspective.

If you click on the links, you’ll see the actual stream from these lists. There’s an easy button to follow everyone at once from a particular list, or click on “following” on the right sidebar to see a full list of who’s in each one, then you can pick and choose.

Here’s my list of Association Tweeps. You’ll definitely find friends in here!

Here’s my Nonprofit or Gov 2.0 list. Ditto.

Here’s my list of “One-Percenters” – these are smart social media people I get a ton of great links from. A lot are friends now.

Here’s “The Big League” – these are the really fab people everyone follows, Clay Shirky, Jeff Jarvis, David Meerman Scott, Charlene Li, Chris Anderson, Dan Pink… but I’ve narrowed down the list (in my head) a LOT since the early days when I followed all the big names. Some people are great writers but crappy Twitterers – these people are great at both. There are currently less than 30 people on this list and I aim to keep it that way.

Here’s my “Awesomesauce” list – mostly for fun, miscellaneous yet super cool Twitter accounts like @MarsPhoenix, @BakedIn, the @APStyleBook, @themediaisdying, @unsuckdcmetro, @Google, @ussoccer etc. that pretty much defy any other classification but are worth a follow in you’re into that sort of thing. (Greg Lavallee is in this list because he is still the one tweep who makes me laugh all day long. Patti Digh is in this list because she is awesome and we have this weird thing where we’ll happen to glance at a clock every day at 11:11 – not on purpose – no matter what we’re doing or where we are, and we tweet each other about it. In case you were wondering what that was all about.)

Here’s Team SocialFish, just a small crew so far and some are honorary for now while we percolate some stuff, but we’ll add to this list as we get our internship program set up.

Anyhoo… hope this is somewhat useful! Would love to see some of your favorite lists in the comments! Also check out Listorious for more. If you don’t have this feature yet, don’t worry, it won’t take long – a whole ton of people got them the same day I did so I bet this will be rolled out pretty quickly to all now.