Kazaroth tells rhipadmore that she should not protect her updates and includes a link to an article called “The Ten Commandments of Twitter” by James Dickey. She clearly feels that Twitter “should” be public, in line with social expectations that private accounts are “wrong” (90 percent of Twitter accounts are public). Because Twitter is considered a broadcast medium, and because it is used so frequently for self-promotion, making accounts private defeats this purpose.

Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, loc. 234