(Urgent)Regarding prepositions and an article

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Sentence: "People generally inform the direct message receiver about the direct message through/by/via tweet"

My question: Which preposition ( through, by or via) would be grammatically correct to use before the word tweet? I know all the prepositions mean the same but still I want to go with the best choice.

Besides, is there a need of any article before the word tweet? If yes then which article " a" or "the"?

Thanks and regards Smile

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@Razer,

I would personally use 'by,' but not because it's better or anything; really. Any could actually be used. No article is needed in this case before 'Tweet,' since it's basically being used as proper noun.

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Are you aware that those who teach developmental (remedial) English have to teach their students that the subject of a sentence is never the object of a preposition?

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@plainoldme,

How is 'People' the object of a preposition?

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@roger,

Did I say it was?

I was just adding a piece of information about a situation that shocked me.

I tend to be very literal. Had I meant to say that in this sentence, people was the object of a preposition, I would have said just that.

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@Razer,

Why not ".... direct message using tweet?"

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@jgweed,

Great answer: brief and directly to the point.

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Thanks everybody for your answers. Really appreciate it. Jgweed, special thanks to you. Smile

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@plainoldme,

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Are you aware that those who teach developmental (remedial) English have to teach their students that the subject of a sentence is never the object of a preposition?

I'm sure that those poor souls are being taught a lot of nonsense about English, POM.

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