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Make some of my tweets private (protected)
I think it could be useful if I could make some tweets private (protected) while leaving the rest of my twitter account public. Kind of like on Flickr - you might want to show everybody most of your photos but every now and then you want to share photos only with friends and family.
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Inappropriate?this would be a wonderful feature as I currently have someone keeping tabs on me that I would rather didn't...I'm going to watch what I twitter in the meantime but really hope this can come to fruition soon.
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Fwiw, the work-around I've resorted to in the meantime is to have two accounts -- one public and one private. The drawback -- my phone can only be linked to one of the accounts. -
Inappropriate?I think privacy is a great idea. In fact, I think businesses that don't respect privacy, and abuse it, should be run out of business.
So here's a new fact: Twitter doesn't understand privacy matters, so don't hold your breath. If you terminate your account, they maintain your user ID, photo, and URL link, among other things - and keep them active.
It doesn't matter if you contact support, their privacy department, or this Customer Satisfaction site where Twitter represents they have 19 employees here working to serve you. They lied about that one too.
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Uh, that text is default for any get satisfaction company. Also, Facebook is even worse, you cannot delete your account at all. They just put you in "sleep" mode, and collect MUCH more data than Twitter. Go after facebook first.
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Inappropriate?I agree, there needs to be some way to either make some posts public on a private account or some posts private on a public account. There's another topic for the same issue here: http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/to...
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Inappropriate?You can use Plurk and set up a twitterfeed to post those plurks to twitter, as plurk lets you have 'private plurks'.1 Comment Add a comment
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nvr try Plurk before. So do 'private plurks' only visible to account owner? Thx 4 clarifiying.
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Inappropriate?But who could see those twitts? Would twitter need to have 2 levels of followers?
Maybe the best way to managing it is to let those who I follow see my private tweets.1 Comment Add a comment
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It used to let people you follow see your tweets even if your account was private, but they "fixed" that (so that spammers can follow thousands of people, and force you to follow them back to see your spam, so that they go higher up in search results and in perceived trust)
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Inappropriate?Adding this feature would add a lot of complication to Twitter. How will users determine who can / cannot see those posts? Would there have to be another button somewhere on the UI to say "Allow this person to see my private tweets"? I think managing this could be too complicated. Twitter needs to focus on a revenue producing business plan, not additional features. It seems like with over 750% growth last year, most people are satisfied with the current feature set.
You can also setup private groups using Twitter on http://www.tweetworks.com/, and chose whether or not to post to only the group or to the Twitter public timeline.
Let's not forget about direct messages.
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Yes! Managing which tweets go to your phone is already a huge hassle. You can't just set "no to all" and then set yeses, you can't search your followers to find the ones that are reciprocal (and thus more likely ones you'd want to go to your phone), etc.
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I disagree. It would be very easy. If you have a selection next to your post that says, "make this post private." Then only the person you are commenting on can see the post- not anyone else. This feature is needed because it will certainly discourage me from commenting on other people twitter if I know that anyone following my posts can see it.
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"Then only the person you are commenting on can see the post- not anyone else." That's a direct message, you just don't utilize the feature.
