[nabs-l] Twitter question

Fri Jan 13 20:06:55 UTC 2012

Hi, Chris,

Sorry. I'm a littole bit blind, to the hole social media, universe. 
Didn't intend to be so strong, or opinionated!
At 10:35 AM 1/13/2012, Chris Nusbaum wrote:
>Carly,
>
>Maybe he didn't know at the time of his posting of this question 
>that there was an option to leave his Tweets unprotected so he 
>didn't have to accept follower requests; I know I didn't.  FYI, with 
>Facebook there is no setting to tell Facebook to let anyone friend 
>you; you have to accept every friend request you receive.
>So when I read his question, I thought it was a good one.  I didn't 
>know that you could set Twitter to unprotect your account and just 
>let anyone follow you; I was used to Facebook's set-up.
>So, this thread helped me too, as I will probably get a Twitter 
>soon, and I needed to know that before I go into my account and 
>somebody just followed me without my approval.  Without this 
>knowledge, I wouldn't know what was going on.  So, he may not be 
>up-tight about who follows him, but he may not have known and was 
>asking more experienced Twitter users a question about it so he can 
>gain more knowledge.  Nothing wrong with that!
>
>Chris
>
>"The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight.  The 
>real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that 
>exists.  If a blind person has the proper training and opportunity, 
>blindness can be reduced to a mere physical nuisance."
>-- Kenneth Jernigan
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Carly Mihalakis <carlymih at earthlink.net
>To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
><nabs-l at nfbnet.org>,National Association of Blind Students mailing 
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>Date sent: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:58:45 -0800
>Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Twitter question
>
>Good morning, I tend to identify with Patrick, on this.  If you are
>gonna be so uptight about your tweets, remaining, unprotected.
>Why
>even be party to social media?? Just curious.
>
>
>At 03:50 AM 1/11/2012, Patrick Molloy wrote:
>Seems like the answer is to leave your tweets unprotected, and then
>you won't have to worry about the friend requests one way or another.
>Patrick Molloy
>
>On 1/11/12, David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:
>Well, I stand corrected, apparently if you "protect" your tweets,
>which I do not do, you have to accept follow requests.
>
>Dave
>
>At 06:37 PM 1/10/2012, you wrote:
>Then what were the rest of the people in this thread talking about
>when they said, for example, that they "use sighted assistance to
>accept follower requests?"
>
>Chris
>
>"The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight.  The
>real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that
>exists.  If a blind person has the proper training and opportunity,
>blindness can be reduced to a mere physical nuisance."
>-- Kenneth Jernigan
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com
>To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:07:29 -0600
>Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Twitter question
>
>Twitter is not like Facebook, you don't accept or deny
>requests.  Anyone can follow you, and you can follow anyone.
>
>A number of blind persons use various clients on the iPhone, Many of
>us used Qwitter, which is no longer in development, replaced by
>quitmonger, dna the cube.  There is also an accessible web site,
>easychirp.com.
>
>Dave
>
>At 09:58 AM 1/9/2012, you wrote:
>I'm curious to find out: How do         people accept foller requests on
>Twitter? I'm using JAWsS version 12.
>Thanks,
>Patrick
>
>
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