Comments on: Big Brother is Watching You. On Twitter.

By: Geof F. Morris's Indiana Jones School of Management

Geof F. Morris's Indiana Jones School of Management — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:05:28 +0000

Venting, in Private [over the Internet, natch]…

Every day I think about returning my Twitter account public, I have a day like today where I need to vent somewhere, and I choose to (ab)use my 60-ish Tweeps with my vitriol and self-flagellation. Why? Well, Big Brother might well be watching me on T…

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By: James

James — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:04:38 +0000

The problem here is Twitter has a binary view of privacy - everything public or everything private. LJ has pretty good privacy control, and I’m told Facebook has really fine-grained control, so it’s not much of a stretch for Twitter to have a friends-only option for individual updates.

By: John E. Simonds

John E. Simonds — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:05:00 +0000

Dear friends: The correct spelling of the word is censor with a “c”. Sorry to nitpick, John, but this namesake reader is a retired newspaper editor. Thanks for your interesting and useful Internet communication, which we learn about through GOOGLE Alert. Aloha, John E. Simonds.

By: ritam

ritam — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:07:22 +0000

just today my colleague said he though we should make our tweets available on our company web site. i was opposed cus frankly i dont think i want MY personal tweets posted on my company’s web site and i dont think they do either. anyway - i sent him your post

By: Ian Skerrett

Ian Skerrett — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:01:33 +0000

I tend to agree; people will use twitter how they see fit. You might want to use it for personal use but others may differ. I think starting another twitter account for personal use is the way to go; similar to your baseball blog.

By: john simonds

john simonds — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:06:02 +0000

I didn’t mean to be the public sensor in my discussion, but Barbara is correct. Our impression of anyone is the whole of what they put out there.

It’s not 1984, it just is what it is.

By: Donnie Berkholz

Donnie Berkholz — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:11:17 +0000

I’ve always thought Twitter is what you make it, but I guess that only applies to how you use it. Twitter is what its users want to make it, and as you say, some of them may want to do different things with your information than you intended.

I was quoted in at least one news story straight from what I tweeted, without ever being contacted about it.

By: Mike Dolan

Mike Dolan — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:45:57 +0000

I’m with you 100% on this one. Everything I write for my day job involves precise and certain language. When I write on my blog or on Twitter, I use a very informal style because it’s just more comfortable or casual to me than to express thoughts in formal statements. The challenge is where is this line between a public, professional presentation vs your own informal social channel. I find this challenge with Facebook. Some friends use it professionally and others use it to communicate informally. Perhaps I simply need to makeup a alternative identify for my casual self known only to those I trust