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?

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[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. :)