-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Cameron Kaiser wrote: >> have you considered adding a mechanism for sending a sort of "direct >> message" to a list? >> >> This would allow users to send targeted tweets to a list (provided the >> user is a member of the list).
> Not wild about this, because people don't subscribe to lists, Well, they do, however that is somewhat beside the point here. > I'd hate to receive DMs from someone who added me to > @spammer/spammy_spam, for example; I propose no such thing. Maybe I was a bit unclear. > Unless what you're asking is to send DMs to people who *follow* that list? No. Let's drop the "direct message" name, and call it "directed tweet" instead, not to confuse concepts. What I mean is that a tweet directed to a list (by a member of that list) will show up (a) in the tweet timeline of that list, (b) and hence also in the friends_timeline of the followers of the list, (c) but NOT in the user_timeline of the poster. It differs from a regular tweet in point (c) only. It is a mechanism to narrow the audience, not widen it, so there is no spamming opportunity. Cheers, Marcus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkr5qXUACgkQXjXn6TzcAQmt4ACfaH8Ebj9MpGEoTVlENSWzPogb FfsAn0CCnwToWdwPYbZep6MYo/wraxqO =LjdT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
