"Everyone can reply" opens it up to the world
"People you follow" ensures that people you've selected are only able to reply
"People you've mentioned" means just that - specfically.
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If you post something to twitter, a social media platform by which ideas are shared, and you don't want people to comment on it or provide their opinions, you can use many tools on twitter (locking account, changing who can reply).
Calling disagreement "disrespectful" is bizarre
"Everyone can reply" opens it up to the world
"People you follow" ensures that people you've selected are only able to reply
"People you've mentioned" means just that - specfically.
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Note: people will see "the author has hidden this, would you like to see?"
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mute the conversation - "i'm done with this and don't wanna hear about it anymore"
mute the person - "i never wanna see their tweets"
block the person - "they can't see mine and i can't see theirs."
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More from Twitter
1/ Meta thread about "Going Pro" on Twitter.
I've been a Twitter power user since 2008 or so. Long time.
I've watched it change from an impromptu conversation or watch party platform to a place for people to build their professional reputations and network.
2/ In many ways it's matured into a more effective professional platform than LinkedIn.
LinkedIn is (mostly) about collecting the professional contacts you've met.
Twitter is a place to meet new people.
That much hasn't
3/ What also hasn't changed is its power for networking.
This is particularly useful if you break out of your echo chamber and talk, build relationships with people doing tangentially related things.
You're bricklaying and with patience it pays off.
4/ What has changed is a growing population of people being *intentional* about the use of Twitter for their professional lives.
Observations on what's working for them:
5/ They "Build in public" - sharing behind the scenes perspectives on whatever it is you're doing professionally.
What do people not know about what you do?
Stick within your expertise, with focus, where people see you are an authority - that’s where you grow a following.
I've been a Twitter power user since 2008 or so. Long time.
I've watched it change from an impromptu conversation or watch party platform to a place for people to build their professional reputations and network.
2/ In many ways it's matured into a more effective professional platform than LinkedIn.
LinkedIn is (mostly) about collecting the professional contacts you've met.
Twitter is a place to meet new people.
That much hasn't
Facebook is where you learn you don't like a lot of the people you know. Twitter is where you learn to like people you don't know already.
— Amanda Orson (@amandaorson) August 2, 2012
3/ What also hasn't changed is its power for networking.
This is particularly useful if you break out of your echo chamber and talk, build relationships with people doing tangentially related things.
You're bricklaying and with patience it pays off.
Back of the napkin math - over the last year I've referred (or retained) $500k+ worth of business to contacts in my network.
— Amanda Orson (@amandaorson) November 16, 2016
4/ What has changed is a growing population of people being *intentional* about the use of Twitter for their professional lives.
Observations on what's working for them:
5/ They "Build in public" - sharing behind the scenes perspectives on whatever it is you're doing professionally.
What do people not know about what you do?
Stick within your expertise, with focus, where people see you are an authority - that’s where you grow a following.
So regarding to my "bombshell"...it's perhaps a bit less dramatic than many presumed, yet it still troubles me a lot, to the point that I wondered whether I should stop posting on certain things
You see, I realized in the last few months that, by translating information and news related to one of the fastest growing spaceflight powers of the world...I inadvertently became a spreader of PRC propaganda.
And with me exactly 180 degrees away from them, I feel scared.
It actually started a few years ago - it's not hard to meet Chinese Twitter users interested in spaceflight, either those living overseas or find a way to climb over the wall. Not surprisingly, many of these S/F enthusiasts are interested in their own military too.
This steadily grew with my followers' count until the flagship Chinese spaceflight missions of 2020 (Chang'e 5 especially but also many others) brought in dozens of them liking/re-tweeting my info tweets sometimes, and similar no. of such followers every month.
I do casually check these new followers/users sometimes. To my horror, far too many of them routinely insults, attacks, mocks others who they see as "anti-China" or spread potential mis-information, even blatant attacks, that started off w/ their state media/spokesperson.
I'm going to make a bomb shell statement here around the turn of the year, something so risky that I face prospects of the Twitter account being attacked or even banned.
— Cosmic Penguin (@Cosmic_Penguin) December 31, 2020
It's about my very uneasy Twitter experience over the past 2-6 months, the worst I could ever remember.
You see, I realized in the last few months that, by translating information and news related to one of the fastest growing spaceflight powers of the world...I inadvertently became a spreader of PRC propaganda.
And with me exactly 180 degrees away from them, I feel scared.
It actually started a few years ago - it's not hard to meet Chinese Twitter users interested in spaceflight, either those living overseas or find a way to climb over the wall. Not surprisingly, many of these S/F enthusiasts are interested in their own military too.
This steadily grew with my followers' count until the flagship Chinese spaceflight missions of 2020 (Chang'e 5 especially but also many others) brought in dozens of them liking/re-tweeting my info tweets sometimes, and similar no. of such followers every month.
I do casually check these new followers/users sometimes. To my horror, far too many of them routinely insults, attacks, mocks others who they see as "anti-China" or spread potential mis-information, even blatant attacks, that started off w/ their state media/spokesperson.
