Whether you just signed up for Twitter or you’ve been Tweeting for years, it never hurts to give your account settings a review once in a while. Here’s a run-down on a variety of the settings, for those of you who are just getting your feet wet in Twitter…
Account
Choose your username carefully. You can change it, but your friends will come to know you by it, so don’t make them have to learn something new unless you really need to switch. 
Use your blog domain name/address or your first name. Add your last name or an initial if you like, but keep in mind that you want people to be able to remember it easily. (My username is @merrittsgret, but of course, people often misspell my husband’s name and I miss the fact that they @ mentioned me.)
If I were you I wouldn’t display the location on my Tweets, but that’s a privacy preference.
Of course, you can actually protect the content of your Tweets and make people ask for approval before they can follow you. I understand that many people have reason to do this. But if you choose that option, keep in mind that it may be giving you a false sense of privacy. It’s easy to re-tweet a Tweet forgetting it was a protected Tweet. And even though your Tweets are protected, replies to them aren’t—meaning the replies can often give away the contents of even protected Tweets. Continue reading »
But just in case your story may someday run along the same happy course as Joe and Abi’s, you might want to go to 
There’s no bulk edit feature (yet), but while reading the message, you can choose “Move to Messages” from the “Actions” drop-down. 
So take heart—just when you thought you had “No Messages” from that future special someone, that prospective client, that agent who is going to make you famous—it might only take a check in your “Other” messages to find those few lines that will change your life. 
The other day a friend added me to a group which was very specific to my locale. I promptly left the group.