On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 08:30, LuKreme<[email protected]> wrote: > On 18-Jul-2009, at 21:31, Arno Hautala wrote: >> >> I don't know. I can see some pretty valid reasons for protecting your >> feed. > > Like? I can only think of one myself, and it's a pretty rarified case. > I mean, unless you are using twitter only to talk to a specific set of > people (in which case you are basically not using twitter, you're just > creating a very small mini-twitter enclave).
Pretty much what I was thinking. >> Really, the only reason to NOT protect your updates is if you >> want others to see your posts without exposing yourself to theirs. > > Um.. no. Protecting your posts means that you are isolated from the > rest of twitter. It means that, for example, if I RT something you > said, no one on my followers can go look at what sorts of other things > you are saying to see if maybe they want to follow your updates. Right, it's like protecting your Facebook page. Protecting your tweets means in order for someone else to see your posts, you have to see theirs (on your profile page or full RSS). You also get to control who gets to see yours. >> Foremost, is keeping the availability of your posts under your >> control (ie. away from your coworkers). > > Never share your online identity with the cow-orkers. That's not even > rule one, that's rule zero! Security through obscurity doesn't work. Even not associating with your full name isn't a guarantee that you won't be "found". >> There's also the idea that if you're worried >> about what someone might think of your post, you perhaps should not >> post it. Protecting your updates balances this. > > Erm... people are going to see what you say unless you have no > followers. People will repost what you say, you have no control over > this. Once you post it, you have to assume that 1) anyone can read it > 2) it's permanent. Unless you protect your feed. It may not fit your usage, but clearly there are people who want to use Twitter, but not open themselves up to the exposure it offers. To be honest, the "mini-Twitter" sounds quite attractive. Trending topics for example are pretty much useless these days; it's all advertisers spaming the keywords and people tweeting all the current topics at the time. I'd love to be able to restrict the trends to a sub-group of some sort. -- arno s hautala /-\ [email protected] pgp eabb6fe6 d47c500f b2458f5d a7cc7abb f81c4e00 _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
