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

[merlinofchaos]

Oh, you know what you could do.

Tweet a link to a protected social network. :)

[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. :)