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Why would anyone "protect" their tweets?

Originally asked on Twitter.

This might at first seem like a dumb question, but ...

When you "protect" your tweets:
You can reply to anyone on Twitter, but those accounts will not see your reply.
You can mention any account in a Tweet, but that account will not see or be notified of your mention.

So .... especially now everyone has Twitter Circle, why would anyone protect their tweets? 🤔

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Twitter's community manager for their Community feature has been laid off.

The future of the community feature? Unknown at this point.

#Twitter
Who sees REPLIES to Twitter Circle tweets?

It's not clear to me who sees replies to Twitter Circle tweets. Are they like replies to protected tweets, which are public (when the accounts tweets are public). Or do replies to a Twitter Circle tweet have the same visibility applied as the Twitter Circle tweet?

I guess I could test this, but does anyone already know?

#Twitter #Discussion
Seeing stuff like this makes me want to pull my hair out.

But can you see why?

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Currently when you publish on Twitter it is possible to change "Who can reply" from "Everyone" to "People you follow" or "Only people you mention".

It seems to me that it would make much more sense for the middle option to be "Your followers" instead.

Thoughts?

#Twitter #Discussion
Not sure when this changed but a hashtag search on Twitter now returns standard search results alongside the hashtag results.

If that isn't clear for example this hashtag search returns results which contain the text "not Instagram" alongside hashtag results.

As a secondary thought it also looks like search results are available only to logged in users.

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It wasn't clear to me previously, nor does it state on Twitter's Circle help page, but the same visibility is applied to replies.

#Twitter #Feature
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After a long wait and repeatedly stating that I didn't think that Twitter Communities were officially dead, it is great to have some confirmation that the feature isn't dead and is now being actively worked on again.

Hopefully they'll take Communities in the right direction 👍

#Twitter
From any Tweet ...
Follow ✔️
Follow back ✔️
Unfollow

To unfollow someone you'll need to visit their profile I guess 🤷‍♂️

#Twitter
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Genuine question.
🤷‍♂️

#Twitter
Twitter to ditch their Circles feature.

I'm OK with this. You?

#Twitter
Red wine ....... TEST 😁

See the test? 🔍

It's not working for me, or on other shares of a "Thread" I've looked at.
Seems like a good idea. People would no longer have to specify that they are quoting a "thread" rather than a single tweet.

I like the way Elon uses his account to beta test ideas in plain sight. 👍

#Twitter
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