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10 posts that clog up Twitter

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:25:20 +0000

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10 posts that clog up Twitter

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:20:45 +0000

The #FF without some indication of WHY those Twitterers are worth following bug me. So do the links with no idea what they're point to. I just don't click links unless something in the other characters of the tweet compel me to.

I also hate the, "I'm eating such and such". Inundated with all these various different meals all hours of the day, even when I'm starving hungry and have to resort to a tin of spaghetti on toast for dinner. I really don't care that such and such just had a BLT and such and such is having lemon chicken for dinner.

And, these annoyances apply on Facebook and Plurk too.

10 posts that clog up Twitter

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:35:14 +0000

All of there are pretty annoying. A few more I'd add:

Follow Friday without saying why the tweeters are being recommended. Just bloggers or cool artists or something would be sufficient.

There's no need to tweet the news headlines unless you're breaking news or giving your own perspective.

Don't thanks me for a retweet or a Follow Friday. If you really want to say thanks then retweet one of mine, but I don't mind either way.

10 posts that clog up Twitter

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:17:44 +0000

Great list Ben. Now, if we just had a way of turning those guidelines into enforceable laws :-)

10 posts that clog up Twitter

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:57:11 +0000

#4 is a huge pet peeve of mine. I've had to stop following interesting people because they take the whole FollowFriday thing way too seriously--tweets, retweets, thank-yous, etc.

I mean, it's cool to make recommendations, and it's polite to thank those who recommend you, but I think we should do these things in moderation. Huge laundry lists that get bounced back and forth all Friday long add nothing at all to the conversation.

10 posts that clog up Twitter

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:56:51 +0000

I am so glad I've got proper Twitter etiquette! I guess those Twitter hipsters would call it "Twittiquette." lol.

The one thing I really can't stand (aside from when ppl don't reply to @'s...who are you to not reply?!...so rude! Anyway, you already mentioned that) is when people just RT all day. Like their whole stream consists only of retweets.

Ugh! I unfollow promptly.

10 posts that clog up Twitter

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:22:17 +0000

Here r a few which I find a bit weird:

Tweeting from bed

Wish I could sleep.

#Now Playing

10 posts that clog up Twitter

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:59:15 +0000

Related to #2 is the link accompanied by a cryptic remark. I'm thinking of one person I follow in particular. For the love of pete, please give us something more than the following (all real lead-ins to links):

Godwin, Revised
Huh... Scary
Fire, and the Playing-with Thereof

Less useless (but only slightly) are the auto-tweet scripts that take the first 100 characters or so of your blog post. I've yet to meet a blogger who starts posts with 100 characters that tell why I should read it (and with good reason).

10 posts that clog up Twitter

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:38:18 +0000

Yes - Yes - YES!! You hit the nail on the head on each one of these. Great write-up.