5 reasons to send Direct Messages on Twitter

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Here are five reasons to send a direct message on Twitter:

You're correcting or warning someone about something they posted publicly on Twitter.
Your friend or colleague is logged off of IM/Skype, and you want to tell them to log in so you can send them a REAL private message.
You're sending a simple or logistical message (a scheduling detail, a status update) that is too boring for anyone else to bother reading.
You're sending a non-lewd love message that is too gushy for anyone else to tolerate reading.
You need to communicate something that is too short to be worth emailing, and yet not time sensitive enough to be worth calling about.

And when NOT to DM:
Because what you're saying is confidential. (HINT: imagine how you'd feel if your DM accidentally got sent to the world)

This week I went on one of my periodic LinkedIn answering binges. Since LinkedIn doesn't provide me with a way of directly aggregating my own answers back onto our site (!!) I'm manually posting my answers back to this site.