#Twitter Rocks, So why ARE Your Tweets BLOCKED? [Infographic]
We are in an age of information sharing, transparency and engagement. You select to involve yourself with social media, with the goal of sharing information, engaging and having people share with you, right. Ok so your Tweets are BLOCKED, Private or whatever the hell they are? Why bother?
I understand it as much as I am possibly capable of if Twitter is used for personal usage. Umm…ok, I’m lying I really don’t but lets pretend I do just so I won’t get hate mail and hate comments. LOL. I have only run across this a few times and I always wonder why a person would even bother to use Twitter under these circumstances. I really REALLY don’t understand it if business people chose to go this route.
As I am very transparent in business and personal practices I would never use a service that I felt as if I couldn’t utilize in a transparent way. With Facebook there are options in place to allow certain degrees of privacy according to who is following. Under those circumstances I guess I understand to a certain degree, because information that you’d like to share with family and friends may differ from what you would want to share with business colleagues. So maybe this is the same sort of thing?
This blog post is a way for me to gain an understanding of the need to block Tweets? More of a way to find out why? Are you curious too? Well lets open the door of dialogue.
In the meantime, take a look at the Funny Twitter Infographic below and think about what kind of Twitter user you are.
Source: flashuser.net via Anise on Pinterest
Posted on February 5, 2012, in Infographic, Twitter and tagged Anise Smith, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, Social Media, StumbleUpon, Twitter, wordpress, YouTube. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.
Yeah, I’ve wondered about that too. I get it when I see that someone is new to Twitter, but beyond that?
I can also see if you are conversing with the porn bots and want to keep it on the down low, but why these people then also follow me is beyond comprehension. (Secret is out, I am NOT a porn bot!)
All that said, I can see a useful intranet style system being in place where posts to a private blog are automatically tweeting links to a closed network or something. (That’s a poor example, because there are much better methods to accomplish this… like email!!)
Curious to see if someone opens my eyes to the mysterious ways of the anti social social network user. Staying tuned!
Hi there! Thanks so much for taking time to read and comment. I agree, It is very odd..I don’t see much of it but I see enough to wonder why someone would do it. I would just not be involved with Twitter if I felt a need to block tweets. However there could be a perfectly valid explanation, I would love to hear it tho.
Ha, block the twitter bitch! I would say that the bird that most represents me is a brand. I would liked to have said a mensch, but I don’t have enough technical expertise
Enjoyed this post Anise, thanks!
LOL..Hahaha You are TOO funny Tony! Thanks for reading, commenting and following. Also thanks for the chuckle..you rock as usual.
Not everyone uses Social Media for the same reasons we do. Here is an article were Jelena Woehr (Community Manager for Yahoo! voices) covers the same topic. http://voices.yahoo.com/should-protect-tweets-6021152.html?cat=35
You are 100% correct, great points in that post! Thanks for sharing Adam!