Twitter

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Alex

Open two accounts and use one for public activities and one for more private with a select list of people allowed to read. A hassle, sure (my phone twitter app handles multiple accounts pretty well since it can keep multiple instances open at the same time) but would allow you a venue for saying "Head Librarian Bob Jones can go blow himself" as well as "Oh, @Wil, you're so dreamy and geeky!"

Yeah, I could do that, but just considering it gives me a headache. Already I have a distinction between Twitter and Facebook, as FB includes family and acquaintances and has my real name attached....which means I post very little there. I know I would just use the "real me" one and not have enough energy for the "public me" one. Plus, would my friends have to follow both, or do I have to cross post everything "public"? Wouldn't demanding that my friends follow both seem douchebaggy?

Perhaps a good app would make me feel better about it. Next phone, perhaps.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Plus, would my friends have to follow both, or do I have to cross post everything "public"? Wouldn't demanding that my friends follow both seem douchebaggy?

Demanding they do certainly would be douchebagery. Simply saying "some topics I'll discuss under this name, some under this one, follow if you'd like" isn't really. Any more than it is douchebagery for you to post some things on Twitter and somethings on Facebook and some things on LoT. It isn't like following two accounts for creates some great Twitter burden for them.

As for the pain in the butt of separating your speaking between two accounts that certainly is a hurdle (though some good apps will make it much easier).

I would like it if Twitter added some level of finesses privacy control, and it should be relatively simple. Perhaps just if you are set public you can limit to followers only by starting your tweet with @f and if you are followers only you can display a tweet public with @p.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Alex

I would like it if Twitter added some level of finesses privacy control, and it should be relatively simple. Perhaps just if you are set public you can limit to followers only by starting your tweet with @f and if you are followers only you can display a tweet public with @p.

I think the individual tweet privacy setting is inevitable. If they did it that way we'd lose two (three, with the space) characters per tweet, which sucks.

[Alex]

It need not. Twitter would just have to not count "@p" towards the 140 character limit and then filter it out from what it shows when posted. 140 is not the hard technological limit for SMS message lenght, 160 is.

But any individual tweet privacy setting would have to be included in the tweet or exclude use by SMS users.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Alex

It need not. Twitter would just have to not count "@p" towards the 140 character limit and then filter it out from what it shows when posted. 140 is not the hard technological limit for SMS message lenght, 160 is.

But any individual tweet privacy setting would have to be included in the tweet or exclude use by SMS users.

hmm. Sounds complex to me, but what do I know? As it is, Twitter the service doesn't provide much, it's all the apps that make it super useful and fun, so it'd be interesting to see how they might change to accommodate new ideas.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

hmm. Sounds complex to me, but what do I know? As it is, Twitter the service doesn't provide much, it's all the apps that make it super useful and fun, so it'd be interesting to see how they might change to accommodate new ideas.

True, but then advanced functions only work for people using the same app or groups of apps that agree to work together on a feature.

All the solutions on per-post privacy are going to be pretty much equally complex, you're just shifting around who's doing the work and how universal the result will be.

[Morrigoon]

I'm debating the merits of re-disconnecting fb from my tweet feed. I have so many people on facebook now, that it's causing me to self censor (for example, because large amounts of family and business friends of my dad's from my childhood are friended on fb, I don't feel free to tweet about my dad's health, lest it set off a panic storm).

Having them connected is REALLY convenient, especially since I like the feedback that facebook allows for, but in the absence of a per-tweet censor, I'm starting to think I need to limit my tweets to just you guys.

Haven't decided for sure yet...

[Stan4dSteph]

I believe there's an app that lets you tag your tweets with #fb for the ones you want to post to your Facebook page. Otherwise, they don't.

[€uroMeinke]

I use BriteKite which has post level privacy settings, alas the private one's stay only in the BriteKite world were access can be managed, but my public posts there, go to Twitter (which I keep private), and then to Facebook, where you can manage access again. At the moment Facebook is purely personal for me and I use LinkedIn to do any professional social networking.

So far the only "strangers" that have friended me on BriteKite have been real people, who commented on pictures, or were in proximity, so I've been fine with that

[Morrigoon]

I apparently need to explore britekite better. I've only really used it to post photos.