on twitter

10 Responses to “on twitter”

1. Ian on October 7th, 2008

   I’m on Twitter too – you can follow me as ianthealy. I update, uh, frequently – because I have no life. LOL

   Also, to keep from getting spammed, I suggest you make your account private where you have to approve follower requests.

   I

2. Amanda Brooks on October 7th, 2008

   Ian,

   I will follow you. By the way, thanks for the tip about approving followers, I’ve already gotten a TON of followers that I don’t know. I was wondering about that. (Was really hoping I was just popular.)

   XX

3. Amber Rhea on October 7th, 2008

   Woohoo! Welcome to the Borg. The water’s fine.

4. Amber Rhea on October 7th, 2008

   Ian – actually, people who follow you can’t spam you unless you follow them back. That’s why I’ve never understood the point of Twitter spam accounts – I let ‘em follow me all they want, but I’m not following them, which means their spam goes exactly nowhere.

5. Amanda Brooks on October 8th, 2008

   Amber,

   Ooooh….okay. That makes sense. I’m learning Twitter. It will take a little getting used to.

   XX

6. Aspasia on October 25th, 2008

   http://twitter.com/LaLibertine

   You can also make your Tweets private and only for people you approve.

7. Amanda Brooks on October 26th, 2008

   Aspasia,

   Can you split your Twitter feeds, some private some not? Or would I just have to set up a whole other private Twitter?

   XX

   PS: I’m still learning the thing. I often have to dig around to find my Twitter update box.

8. Aspasia on October 28th, 2008

   I think the closest you can come to splitting your Twitter feds is to do direct messages to people you are following and are following you. Like, you would have to friend/follow me (which you still need to do, missy! ) to send a direct message that only I can see or whoever you’re sending it to. But I can see that becoming a complete pain in the ass if you want to send a lot of people the same private message because you’d have to do separate private messages for each person.

9. Amanda Brooks on October 29th, 2008

   Aspasia,

   Thanks for clearing that up! I’m glad you understand Twitter more than me. So it looks like the simplest way of doing private notes is to simply create a private account and invite specific people to follow.

   Actually, this would be a great group-notification system, like for SWOP or something.

   I will follow you, my smiling libertine!

   XX

10. Aspasia on October 29th, 2008

    Yup. I was thinking about doing the same thing for my family. This would be a good group notification, like you said.