Twitter

[keithbobo]

I've always wondered. I have a Twitter account and follow maybe a couple of hundred sports people, actors, musicians etc and amongst my group of friends and asocieties have about 40 or 50 followers.

When someone sends you a message, retweets something you've written or mentions you in a comment you get a notification.

For a celebrity who has millions of followers must get tweeted millions of times a day or mentioned millions of times a day in comments or tweets made by ordinary people - do they get notifications? I can just picture on their iphone the Twitter symbol with a red number over it saying 26,000 or something like that. But surely not?

How does this work for them?

[flump1]

Hi Keith, I use Twitter occasionally and I am assuming that the settings for any interaction can be deactivated in the privacy part of their profile? Like one can on facebook.

[Jomlett]

Hey Keith, in my Notifications it shows Retweeted by Joe Bloggs and 123,456 Others...

[PankySmooch]

Or maybe it's not actually them but their PR person

[bookbinder]

keith, do you get a notification if someone who's not on your list of followers, i.e. just a random surfer, happens to read your tweets? And, if so, does the notification identify that random surfer?