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Twttrlist: A “best of” list of your favorite tweets on a specific topic.

This week we quietly released a new Twitter tool called Twttrlist. It’s good for quickly organizing the best tweets around a certain topic, all on one page, and archiving them for all time. Retweet your list and let followers suggest write-ins.

Mashable calls it: “A great way to create a mosaic of Tweets, to promote a hashtag, compile the best tweets about an event, or even promote yourself on Twitter. It also comes with the ability to reply or retweet individual tweets, as well as share the entire Twttrlist page.”

You can also think of it, simply, as “editing Twitter.”

Twttrlist is useful for building signpost reminders of tweets and links that would be lost on Twitter over time, and it further enhances Twitter as a searchable tool with curated insight. Unlike most Twitter tools, even unlike our earlier Twttrstrm Q&A experiment, this one is a permanent archive or time capsule. It’s Google findable and monetized. As it scales, it brings a stream of relevant, focused traffic back to Twitter–and to your Twitter timeline.

Here are a few examples:

Twitter tips from some of the most successful Tweeps
Best of #MMORPG on Twitter
The Best Tweets Are From Space!
20 Funniest Tweets About The Star Trek Movie
The best, funniest (and some actually helpful) tweets about FlightControl

Why not make a Twttrlist about….
* The 59 funniest (or unfunniest) tweets about the Swine Flu.
* Oprah’s 10 best tweets (so far)!
* iPhone games worth playing: crowdsourced by Twitter!
* Best 140character movie reviews of Terminator Salvation.
* A collection of your favorite #FollowFriday suggestions of all time.
* The 10 most awkward tweets about last night’s bachelor party.
* All your own retweets about job openings, all in one place. Help the job market!
* The 99 most inspirational tweets from your favorite marketing gurus. Make a quotebook Twttrlist.
* Wall of Shame examples of the worst spam tweets.
* Cabernets under $10 that won’t burn the enamel off your teeth, according to Twitter.
* 25 weirdest @replies you wish you’d never read. (HT to Time magazine’s Facebook version).
* The best Twitpic photos from airports.
* And so on. You tell me.