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."

[merlinofchaos]

Oh, you know what you could do.

Tweet a link to a protected social network. :)