Twitter & protecting your tweets

Privacy privacy privacy. The media & world scares us into believe bad things well happen if we post stuff online. Weather that is are twitter page to our Facebook or personal website. In some content there comes a point when you just start to think before you post. It’s a common theme some ads & organizations are trying to put out. If it’s not something you would randomly yell at Wal-Mart then don’t tweet about it. If you want to talk to someone without too much info getting out don’t write it on their Facebook wall. That’s like writing a message on Wal-Mart billboards & having thousands of people seeing it whenever they want to. But you say “Grant I have my Facebook on private” “Grant I have my twitter feed to not show my tweets” well guess what You’re not a social person with the world around you. You’re stuck in your own scared zone.

Before I follow someone on Twitter, I check out their profile page (assuming I don’t know them already). I read the bio, and I look at the person’s tweets to see if this is someone who will add value to my stream.(don’t want to follow junk or a teen girl’s relationship problems) From talking to others, this is common behavior. I want to follow a real person who has somewhat of my interest.
When I see this




I most of the time won’t even bother to send a request. Unless it’s a good friend I actually know.
So, for this reason alone, protecting updates makes it much harder to grow your network, even if you take the time to find people to follow.
Another downside of protecting your updates is that your tweets cannot be retweeted. This means that when you do say something wonderful or share great news, it cannot spread beyond the people who’ve cleared your blocked-hurdle. I have had this happen on many occasions. One of my friends who has a “protected twitter feed’ well post something I find interesting or just want to share with my fellow friends. Instead of just easily Retweeting it. I must copy it & then possibly have someone yell @ me for using there written material.

I do care very much who I follow, and I choose appropriately. When I run into a protected user, though, I’m blind. Again, most folks said the same thing: a protected user is unlikely to be followed.
Protecting your updates is a personal choice, and there are many reasons folks do it. Still, if one of your goals on Twitter is to build a network, you’ll be far better served by letting your tweets be visible to one and all. But if your just on there to yell random useless bits of info. Then maybe you should turn you page into protected mode for you can yell to a select few who follow you.
I don’t have all day to read endless tweets. I have to narrow down what I can read & engage in…that’s a whole different subject we could talk about later…how to use twitter without it using your time.

Do you protect your tweets? And if so… why? Or do you send requests to protected users all the time? Please comment below. Also I do know there are probably lots of grammar mistakes. I’m dyslexia so I try my best to proofread & edit. Please feel free to edit this & send it to me. I would totally cite you @ the bottom & forever love you so much.
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Which Cell Phone Companies Offer The Best And Worst Coverage?

You are in the market to buy a cell phone and want service from a company that offers the best coverage where you live. How do you know which company to use? The first thing you may wish to do is ask family members and friends which company they use and how the coverage is. But if you are like I am, you also want to do some checking on your own to get other folks’ opinion about the service they are receiving as well in your area.

There are two sites that you can try to find out just how good a company’s cell service is where you live. One is DeadCell Zones, which provides an interactive map à la Google to zoom in and out of locations and also offers the ability to select from the four major carriers: Verizon, US Cellular,Sprint and AT&T.

Another site to check to see if you live in a black hole is CellReception. This site offers what it describes as a database of over:

142,822 cell phone tower locations registered with the FCC, and over 55,300 cell phone carrier comments submitted voluntarily from real customers using their service all over the U.S.

I found CellReception very useful since it was easy to find which company offered the best coverage for my neighborhood. The comments from consumers were very helpful and I would highly recommend this site.

The importance of coverage for those of us who have dropped our landline and have gone completely to cell can not be over stated. I found by living in Iowa & traveling alot that Verizon was the best choice for me. Not only was the service good, but I also was able to actress such things as 3G internet & Data more often then my previous provider us cellular. I also believe that the phone model itself will dictate how good your signal will be. I had a Droid phone & was getting service no problem however when I switch to a Lg envey I noticed that in the same spots I used my Droid I no longer got signal or data coverage with the Lg envey. Phones play a big part in what you want to do & what kind of service you want.
Verizon Wireless is everywhere in Burlington Iowa. 3G internet is widely available



Is there a site that you would recommend?
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