Comments on: Protected Twitter updates

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:17:30 +0000

Personally, I think your response was very clever and I got a good laugh! However, I work for a K-8 school and we have a twitter account to communicate with families, parents, and other groups, so I chose to protect our updates. When I signed up our account was public and within the first minute I had 5 women (wearing very little) following us. Soooooo, I changed our account to private. Good move on my part… I think so.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:17:30 +0000

By: jeremyvaught

jeremyvaught — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:53:58 +0000

This is a great point mayjah. Their true intentions are hidden. The other side of that , is I try to follow people back that follow me, unless they are spammers or don't speak my language. However, if someone I don't know follows me and they have their updates protected, I rarely follow them back.

By: mayjah

mayjah — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:05:16 +0000

I don't understand protected updates either. I don't use twitter like britekite, announcing my exact location, so I can't see the harm in sharing my updates with the whole wide world. Nothing sadder than refollowing someone who is private (out of curiosity) only to find them boring/annoying/spammy. Be upfront with your annoyingness!

By: jeremyvaught

jeremyvaught — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:16:42 +0000

haha, and thanks for the link to your protected twitter account. :) well played

By: jeremyvaught

jeremyvaught — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:15:23 +0000

I'm less trying to make a point as to make some humor. Personally, I do find it odd that people try to walk the fence of being social and anti-social. But we each have our own feeling of where to draw the line on privacy. I get that part. Sorta.

But if you travel across the country to attend a Podcamp, I think you are slightly beyond the anti-social, and squarely in the social. What do you have to hide anyway?

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:49:37 +0000

I don't get it — so you want to have a public Twitter account.

Why are you threatened by those that do not?

By: Joel Mark Witt

Joel Mark Witt — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:37:57 +0000

I think a lot of people are confused and don't understand Twitter. Especially if it someplace they think they “need” to be in the marketing-social media-web 2.0 space.

Still a lot of folks are of the 1.0 mindset where you used a screen name instead of your real name. They haven't come to embrace the communicative web yet.