9 Reasons why I prefer to DM you rather than reply in public on Twitter

Okay, the cliche first. I love Twitter. And one of the reasons is because its the perfect, non cluttered communication model I’ve used ever on any social media channels.

One glitch though. I think the @reply model of conversation sometimes doesn’t makes sense…wait..before jumping into conclusions, I said “sometimes”..note that please !

@Replies are great, its a transparent communication model. But I have a problem with this, guess its just me. To respond to each and every reply that come my way could make my timeline look very awkward !

I mean, there are replies that come to me saying things like “There’s a pixel jutting out on the site header panel” and even things like “Can we do business together”. And honestly, I would like to see both the questions with the same importance and don’t want to neglect either one. But replying to each and every reply could mean I’m spamming my timeline.

One thing I often repeat is – “The reason why I prefer to DM you for your replies is that I respect you just as much as every other person following me. The last thing you want to see is thank you’s and lols in my timeline.”

Just wanted to clarify that I love the DM concept on Twitter most, its God given. And I can think of more than nine reasons to substantiate my point, however here are the first nine.

1. The last thing you want to see on my timeline is lot of “Thank you” and “lol” messages

2. I can only DM people who follow me, so its like a check on who’s following me

3. I respect you as much as I respect other people following me

4. I don’t want to bore others with meaningless messages

5. I can get more personal on DM’s than replies

6. DM’s is like super efficient email

7. You can ping me with links/details you don’t want to let others know

8. I don’t know what to make of this, but the best friends on Twitter DM me most

9. I think I’ll be more open and friendly on DM’s than in public

Now, I’m not trying to say that its wrong to reply in public or anything, so long as your followers are okay with it, you can do whatever you want, that’s what I prefer to believe. But if anything pisses them off, you better stop it.

Summary

Replies in public should work for all, its just that I’m not comfy talking too much to one person in public, when I can talk to him one on one in DM. Like if this was a huge party, you wouldn’t just talk to one person right, you reach up to those you want to have word with. DM is like may way of doing it. Hope it makes sense.

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