Is there a way to Tweet to a list of recipients and only those recipients?

[randomness]

I have a whole pile of random Twitter followers. I wish to make an announcement to the people I follow who follow me, all of whom are people I know in real life. I am not interested in telling the random Twitter followers who all appear to be people who think I have a cool Twitter handle.

Is there a way to do this other than sending private messages to each of the people I follow on Twitter?

Comments

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

You might be able to change your settings to protected tweets only, and do it that way: "Accounts with protected Tweets require manual approval of each and every person who may view that account's Tweets."

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Clever, clever.

Thanks for that!

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

You're welcome...but! there's a caveat: some further reading of that support page says that unprotecting your tweets will cause previously protected ones to be made public.

https://support.twitter.com/articles/14016

[merlinofchaos]

Don't do that.

Anyone you aren't following will be forced to unfollow you.

Twitter just isn't good at being a private or directed social media platform. For that you need Facebook or G+. Or here.

[merlinofchaos]

Oh, you know what you could do.

Tweet a link to a protected social network. :)

[coraline]

yeah, that's just "you can toggle between "all my tweets are private and i get to decide who can follow me" and "all my tweets are public" for your whole timeline.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

This is probably the best plan, because I've apparently (checking my Twitter settings) already protected my tweets.

[merlinofchaos]

If that's the case, only people you follow can read your tweets.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's good, because I appear to have all these people who started following me before I locked down my account. I would prefer not to tweet anything to them.

I suppose I could experiment and see if any of them respond to these tweets.

[merlinofchaos]

They should've been forced to unfollow you when you went private.

As an experiment you could set yourself not locked, then lock your account again. It *should* reduce your followers to just those you follow.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

So, as an experiment I sent out a few tweets. No one has responded to any of them, even though I was dangling free Ello invitation codes at them. :)