music_coaster2010 | She's opened her mouth again (Reply)

Anyone want to argue the differences between using Twitter Search and Google Search or any other search engine for that matter?

If using twitter to search for "fannish" things is considered stalking, then isn't doing a search using a Search Engine the same thing? Especially since unless you have your Tweets protected, they fall under public domain? Yes, you hold the copyright to them, but as soon as you posted them publicly you lost the right to complain about OMG only my list was supposed to see that.

And just a word to the wise, you can't lock your twitpic account. As long as someone has your username, they can look up all the pictures that you post on Twitpic.

I've been on Twitter for about 26 months now (just over 2 years), so I was there before it was cool to tweet. Do you people know how they tell you to get followers? You use the search to search for people who have your same interests. So as a new Twitter user who was introduced to it by musician Matt Morris I used search to find people who were interested in Matt's Music.

Last I checked that wasn't stalking.

But you know as someone who in a technology field and sees it ever changing, I know nothing. But whatever.

I dare you to go create a new twitter and follow no one that you know and find no one by using the search. All your going to get is spambots who automatically follow everything and anything. You won't be successful at using social media unless you use the search.

Using the Twitter Search is just like a Google search, the only difference is Twitter is confined to Twitter and Google is everything (including twitter, yes I just Googled myself using twitter: and my username, LOTS of stuff came up).

So newsflash people, if you don't want your stuff getting out: 1) Don't post it online, 2) Protect your Tweets, 3) Run a google search on yourself, 4) If you are that paranoid about your pictures, host them somewhere where you can only give the link out to certain people, and don't use Twitpic or Tweetphoto or something like that. 5) Use a copyright mark. If you have snagIt or any other software, I can watermark batches of images in under 5 minutes.

And before you go telling me oh but you've never had that happen to you. Yes, I have. One person on facebook I went to High school with who I hardly talk to took some of my Phillies World series parade pictures and posted them and claimed as her own. I couldn't do anything because I didn't watermark them at the time, but in the end I didn't care, it's the Phillies and there were thousands of other pictures from that parade that were WAY better than mine and in the end, I just laughed and find it semi flattering that someone things something of mine was that good they wanted it for their own. And I've had my fair share of creepy old men try to hit on me through facebook as well. So yes, I am well aware of stalking and stealing.

But plain and simple you don't want it out on the web don't share it.

ETA: Also if you protect your Tweets, you can't tweet back at people who don't follow you. Well you can, but only you will see them, so if your following a celebrity and we'll just use @team_barrowman cause I can, if your Tweets are protected, only you are going to see them, and the people that share the same followers.

This is something a lot of people don't know and when celebrities like Noel Clarke do chats, and people get pissed off he's not answering their questions, it's mainly because he can't see them because your updates are protected, so when he does a search to see all the @NoelClarke replies to him, if your tweets are protected you can shout 1000 times he still ain't gonna see it.

ETA the second: On the celebrity thing, if your tweets are protected you can't play the fun quizes that @westendupdates does every day.

And now really I'm done.