It (Twitter) is an crazy and amazing thing to me. I marvel at what is said. And I still think, “What do I have to say? What do I have to contribute?” Then I read about someone’s bodily function and I think, “Geez, if they can tweet that, I can remind people to drink water and eat veggies!”

I am thinking you are in the middle of your day (or the beginning). I am not sure exaclty where you are, but you use “s” where we use “z”, so you’re not in the US. So thank you for taking the time to read and reply. I’m off to bed. Have a great day!

What didn’t “feel right” to me was changing what should be a “reply” into a “mention” without the recipients say so or (worse still?) without their knowledge that this is happening.

Still, you’re right though, 95% of what’s said on Twitter is pretty public so it’s a small point only.

Joel

As far as I am concerned, people on Twitter have agreed to have their comments and conversations public. If not, they shouldn’t be on Twitter, they should be using e-mail—–and then still with e-mail we have to remember that it might not stay private.

A reply is not private, no matter how it is typed, it is not private. It is just seen by a different amount of people depending on how it is typed. If it doesn’t “feel” right to be having a conversation in public then it would probably be best to have the conversation off line. But that is just my opinion.

Everyone uses Twitter differently. I always laugh when I see people with blocked updates, but then I realize that they probably have their reasons for that. I know young people who just use Twitter as a means to communitcate with their friends. Blocking their updates makes sense to them. But for those of us that are using it for an exchange of information, networking, and marketing, . . . well, I don’t even follow people with blocked updates.

DO you think the person you are replying to ought to “agree” beforehand in some way before before you broadcast the reply? I just “feels” wrong to publicly reply without them realising (obviously a built in twitter convention would help here)

Joel

I know WHAT FireFox is (I think), but I don’t use it. BUT . . . . who cares what I use and what I know . . . .your comment and your information is AWESOME and invaluable because we are sharing info here and I am sure that your comment helped someone else. Plus I learned something . . . . and I will be able to keep it in my bag-o-tricks. So when someone else needs it I can whip it out and tell ‘em. Yay! Thank you.

So, let me ask though, you are saying that no matter how the tweet is typed the tools you mentioned will show you the entire conversation?

I am going to have to look at PowerTwitter. There really are a huge amount of tools and things out there. I can’t possibly know them all and so this kind of “conversation” is so amazing to me.

So again, thank you. Even though my hair is mussed from the zoom of this info blasting over my head, I really appreciate the info. I appreciate you taking the time to look at my blog and comment. I am sure others appreciate you doing so too!

You might have been just sharing that you figured out that you can see the replies and they are not private. Right?

A DM goes only to the person you are DMing.

If you want MORE people to see any reply type something in front of the @whomever but, from what I understand you need a space before and after.

Thank you for stopping by and commenting.

Glad this helped a little.

Thank you!

In most of my circumstances having replies public is better as the subject being discussed will be “on topic”. However, it would be good to have a convention (whether formal/informal) to control this behaviour.

Thanks

Joel