Tweets that start with a name don't work like you think
I was put onto this interesting feature of Twitter by Scott Hanselman, but it needs repeating. When you use Twitter and send a tweet then your followers get it, except when you start with a name. For example:
The above one was seen by everyone who follows me!
The one above starts with William Branders name, so only people who follow both of us will see it, in other words (or Venn chart style), it is only that group in the middle that will see it!
So how do you send a reply & have all followers see it? Start with a dot like in the tweet below.
Important to note that this doesn’t make replies private like a direct message is – these tweets are still public and can still be seen on your Twitter page, it is just they do not show up in followers view.
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