With iList Micro now all you have to do to create a classified listing is tweet what you are offering and use the hashtag #ihave in your tweet. Likewise, you can tweet that you're interested in something by using the hashtag #iwant. Your #ihave and #iwant tweets will automatically get picked up by iList and added to their microlisting site, where anyone can search from the available assortment of twittered classified ads.
Plus, if you never want to leave Twitter, you don't have to. Just follow @ilistmicro to have iList do the classifieds work for you. They scour #ihave and #iwant tweets to find a match for your specific Twitter inquiry and direct message you with info on the matched Twitter user.
iList Micro and their matching DMs are a dead simple process for you, but the technology that makes this happen is actually pretty complex and impressive. They've built an automated system that attempts to process the context of Twitter content and can even recognize tweets without the hashtags.
Chris Abad, iList CEO, explains how this works: "using #iwant or #ihave is an easy way for a user to get into the system, but outside of that we're constantly mining Twitter's public stream for relevant content. We actually need to understand the context of a tweet, and a good part of it is automated, but we also have a human-review process. We want to make sure the matches are relevant and that's really hard to do considering the way people write on Twitter (due to the short form)."
Some additional hashtags you can optionally use to categorize your tweet include #forsale, #forrent, #free, #events, #jobs, and any other descriptive tags that suit your listing or your search.
We're not only impressed with the simplicity behind iList's micro classifieds, but we're also blown away by how easy they've made it for Twitter users to find and list whatever they want without doing anything more than what comes naturally — tweeting.