Twitter-pal question (probably a bit silly!)

Hello all. I appreciate that I've been posting in these various forums quite a lot lately - sorry if it's too much! I guess I need to talk, or something! Anyway, this particular issue is going to sound very petty and silly, I'm sure. Ah well, here goes!

I recently backed off from Twitter for the sake of my sanity, but there are the grand total of 3 people on there with whom I don't want to lost touch. Two are ladies, and the third is a guy whom I've known on-line for what must be nearly a year now. We're not romantic in any way, but regard each other as "Twitterpals". We're both into art and every day for ages now we've been exchanging paintings & having a laugh. He knows I like slugs and snails & often sends me a snail pic or two. Pretty much made Twitter worthwhile! I messaged him to say I was taking a break from Twitter, and he said to please hurry back, as he would miss my sense of humour!

Over the last few days he's been sending me the odd picture & message over Pinterest lol - it's the only platform left we're still both on. I don't get any romantic feelings from him but he's a nice guy (as far as you can tell on the Web - unfortunately I've met some real humdingers which has made me wary!)

I don't really know masses about him but I do know that his elderly Mum has gone into a home & I get the feeling he might be alone for Christmas (I'm not sure). I had an impulse to let him have my mobile number & say that if he wanted, he could ring me at Christmas - not if he didn't want to, of course. But I didn't. I'm wondering if it would be appropriate? I don't know!

It just seems to me that if he's one of 3 people out of thousands who made Twitter worthwhile, it would be a shame to let it go, and we can't keep chatting over Pinterest (the fact that he's contacting me on Pinterest must show that he doesn't think I'm entirely awful, right?)

If all this sounds really silly please bear in mind I'm an Avoidant widow with borderline agoraphobia and a stoma bag who hasn't been on a date since 2000...

TIA!

If you get tweetdeck it's free. You can have say a twitter only those three know about and dm them. You can also remove feeds so you only see dms.

Holodeck wrote:If you get tweetdeck it's free. You can have say a twitter only those three know about and dm them. You can also remove feeds so you only see dms.

Thanks - I haven't heard of Tweetdeck. I will look into it! I can't cope with my Twitter as it is just now.

Completely get that I turned off the home feed in tweetdeck at the start of this year, and maaan is it less annoying.