Twitter q: Can we send a direct private message to someone without others seeing it?

[sam m]

From what I know, you can't. Which I hate! I believe the only way to get DM option is if your following them and they are following u.

There was that bot for twitter horoscopes (Twittascopes I believe). They said you have to send them a DM on twitter to prevent the horoscopes from posting on your news feed. The problem was twittascope never followed anybody so no one had the DM option. I had to change my password and that fixed it. Point is, if there was a way to DM them, the twittascope users would have found a way to do this, but when I looked it up there was no way to DM them. Twitter has since changed a way to prevent twittascope from posting, unfortunately they have not (to my knowledge) changed DM rules.