Protect my tweets

Protect my tweets Protect my tweets is the only option in Tweet Privacy,one of the few Account Settings required to create a Twitter profile.AdditionalAccount Settings consist simply of your Name, Username, Email, Language, Time Zone and Tweet Location. Although simple and self explanatory, instructions areincluded with each criteria. There should be littleconfusion in choosing a name oremail address but it seems that there are still many who may not understandthe premise of Twitter because if they did they would never check the box inTweet Privacy to Protect my tweets.Privacy issues continue to remain top news withFacebook taking thebrunt of criticism for some time now to settheprecedent. No other social media site is going to establish a site offeringonline accounts visible to millions without including some form of privacy options. The question is whether the options availableare based on any rationale regarding the use of the social media site orsimply to protect against privacy advocates. Regardless of the reason behind theprivacy optionoffered by Twitter, the question is, why would any user on Twitter choose to select the Protect my Tweets option? Could it simply be anunconscious error? Or maybe a considerate user withthe urge to share inappropriate informationthat could beconsidered offensive? The140 characters you choose to tweet could consist of anything including a personal message or alink to an article blog post or website. The people you share your tweets with are your followers and youhave the optionto follow anyone you are interested in as long as they havent protected their tweets in which case you willsee pending and my reactionto that is to cancel my decision tofollow them and I am left with the question, who or what are theyprotecting their tweets from and why? The more people you follow, Following, the more feedback you will receive and the more people that follow you, Followers, will result inmorepeople receiving your message, known asa tweet. Should you find yourself offended by anyone,youhave the option to select an Action associated with anyone you are following or anyone who is a follower to unfollow, block or report for spam. There is no reason tochoose to protect all of your tweets, simply allow everyone who is interested in you tofollow your tweetsand if you dont want a particular individual to see what you tweet,block them! If your audience consists of only a fewfollowers, how much influence will you have? If you are only following a few people how much value are you missing out onfrom some of the most inspiring, intellectual and thought provoking people in the world? If you dont believe in Twitter right now, you may want to consider what the followingcompanies and individuals may know that you dont. Of the Fortune Global 100 companies, 65% have active Twitter accounts, data collected between November 2009 and January 2010 among the top 100 companies of Fortunes Global 500 companies by Burson-Marsteller.There were less than 75 million users on Twitter in November 2009 and today there are over 100 million! If the most successful companies in the worldare not impressive enough, how about some of the most successful individuals in the world: @RichardBranson,@BillGates, @Oprah, @BarackObama, and the list goes on and on. Visit www.celebritytweet.comand although you will find@MileyCyrus and @JustinBeiber,you are mistaken if you think it is just for kids. Feel free to follow @JaneFonda, @Joan_Rivers, @AshtonKucheror@KevinSpacey. You willnot receive the pending message if you choose to followany of these people becasuenone of them have checked theProtect my Tweets box.