Comments on: Why You Might Want To Set Your Twitter Account to Private

By: cece

cece — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:40:19 +0000

contrary to almost everyone here, i am interested in privacy on twitter.
in fact what i want to find out is if it is possible to block people from finding you through search? can you make your account somewhat invisible except only to those you decided to follow??
any alternatives to using anonymous email address and a nickname?

i sort of want to use twitter very very often but let only a select number of people to be updated on what i am doing
but neither do i want to face the awkwardness of rejecting acquaintances` requests to follow me. so they simply should not be able to find me

By: Ana

Ana — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:27:55 +0000

I want to know how it works when you are private and you reply to someone you are followi cg (who is not following you) by using the @ _____ Can they reply to you if you are private?

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:01:48 +0000

Great conversation! I am intrigued by the use of privacy settings to create a members-only information stream. Could be used for special promotions and “Insider Sales” for businesses. Hmm what else?

By: Jesse Newhart

Jesse Newhart — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:18:36 +0000

I agree with her. The whole point of my article is say that it is in certain people’s best interest to set their Twitter account to private.

By: Roberta Hill

Roberta Hill — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:30:44 +0000

An articulate argument in support of protected tweets from @melaniemcbride who clearly is “no n00b” http://sn.im/dxwon

By: Jesse Newhart

Jesse Newhart — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:40:53 +0000

http://monitter.com/ is a good website for doing local Twitter searches. You can set the range from 10 mile to 100 mile radius around a particular zipcode.

By: Barbara Radisavljevic

Barbara Radisavljevic — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:16:36 +0000

I joined Twitter specifically for learning from others I haven’t met yet, and meeting people in k-12 education. Still trying to find a search that will tell me who else in my local area is tweeting and who the teachers are. In spite of that I’ve found a lot of people I’m learning so much from it boggles my mind. If I want to talk only to the people I know, I use Facebook.

By: Jesse Newhart

Jesse Newhart — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:59:19 +0000

No you can only DM those who are following you.

By: Tia Dobi

Tia Dobi — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:55:48 +0000

Hi – can you DM someone even if they’re not following you? (I’m not sure how to do that.)

Thank you, Tia D.

By: safas

safas — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:57:56 +0000

I would agree with MS.Julie. Making your twitters private kinda defeats the purpose of twitter. Althugh I have to admit I think the only reason most people are following me lately is to get there follower numbers up.