What’s up with Chris on Twitter?

A couple of days ago I decided to abandon @ChrisLeckness and start over with “protected tweets”.  I was going to seperate friends, followers, and asshats this way.  It went well but there are a couple problems…

1. By protecting your tweets, others can’t see what you tweet. That is the point right? Right. BUT, what about when you want to say something to someone that isn’t following you. You can @theirname all you want, but they aren’t going to see it. I had thought that they would as long as they were @’ed, but I was wrong.  I did a test with a couple people on my new account yesterday and no luck. I am not going to be able to protect my tweets. Being able to have conversation with others that do not follow me is important.
2. I also realized yesterday how many accounts and how many services I will have to log in and chance stuff on to reflect the new account. I had not thought about that.

That said, I have to go unprotected and I am going to return to my original account. No, I don’t mind losing 3500 tweets and almost 800 followers. In fact, I removed 250-300 followers one by one before I said screw it, this is taking too long. I wasted almost 2 hours removing about 200 of the followers. It’s ridiculous… I have decided to just leave those that are left in place. I unfollowed everyone I followed on that account when I moved to the new account too. I will refollow the same folks I followed on my new account. My new outlook on Twitter will remain the same too.

Related posts:

1. My NEW Twitter Policy
2. An Idea for a Twitter Application – Twitter Poll
3. Am I doing it right? (Twitter)
4. Another Twitter Post: Who I follow on Twitter.
5. When you turn it on, does it return the favor?