Dad yeah we got 1,653 followers since last night what does it mean it means that 1,653 people are reading your Twitter feed I thought it was like texting did you post anything since last night yeah I just sent a private message to somebody to that a-hole food critic you could only send private messages to people who are following you no he wrote something nasty about me and then I hit reply and let me send a message to him dad replies are public and it looks like he retweeted it to all his 145 f