DISQUS

jhadleyconrad · 1 month ago

My biggest pet peeve is those tweeps that rt every tweet that mentions them. If they get a compliment from someone, or a recommendation that they should be followed, they feel the need to retweet that whole tweet every time. It's so annoying and self serving. You can personally thank someone as I do or recommend them too without feeling the need to tell the rest of us over and over how wonderful someone thinks you are.There are a couple of Big Time tweeters that consistently do this. Annoying!!!

Lauren · 3 weeks ago

You're right. I must admit I have been guilty of this myself, but I see now how lame the practice really is. And many of the "Big Time Tweeters" do infact RT their praises. It is really, really pathetic.

I will still RT posts or websites that feature me or my work, cuz hey, that's what I do! And such mentions would typically be a resource sharing post that I believe my followers are in fact interested in. Theres no shame in that.

safcblogger · 1 month ago

Morning :) i have just stumbled this post, even though i am reaaaally busy i just had to comment before going out to dinner with Stephen Fry and Ozzy Osbourne #ff night night

John · 1 month ago

The most annoying of all are people telling other people what not to tweet about.

wesbos · 1 month ago

I hate the auto DMs. Its only good for knowing who I should stop following.

I cant belive you didn't add mafia family! Keep that shit on facebook.

Niall Harbison · 1 month ago

Yeah the Mafia family would have been a good one alright. Forgot about that :)

PJ Edwards · 1 month ago

Eh, I agree with a lot but a lot of people don't care for social etiquette and will put on their crap on blast. The sports tweets are the only thing I disagree with. Especially if it is a highly intense game, it could be cool but then again I am a sports fiend.

sbunting108 · 1 month ago

The most annoying thing to me is what jhadleyconrad said retweeting compliments! It so annoying!

MistressWanda · 1 month ago

Some good points here but not sure I agree with all of them.

I like it when others say good morning, especially organisations. Then you know they're online (bit like the little green button on FB).

I also definately look at other people's Follow Friday recommendations and have found some good stuff this way (admittedly I don't know the music monday thing works). What's important is that people say why you should follow and not just give a long list of names.

I think saying you've hooked up with someone can work if there is a purpose behind it. For example if you work for a charity and you've just hooked up with Gordon Brown who's going to give you more money to run a project, then your followers will probably be pretty interested to know that.

My pet hate though is people who put out 20 tweets in a row - it's like online verbal diarrhea.

Good article though - I enjoyed it!

techani · 1 month ago

Honestly I like the #FF .. Other than that you're right. All the above are OK if we ONLY have our real friends in the list whom we are close in reality.