Archive for February, 2009

10 Annoying Things People Do On Twitter

What bugs you on twitter?

Because every self respecting blog needs a top 10 list about something, here is my Top 10 annoying things people do on twitter

10) DM you after you add them and say: Thanks for following me, join me on (facebook, myspace, URL of some sort)

- It just bugs me, if i wanted to follow people on a different network i would.

9) Add you, remove you, add you again

- What a sad way at getting followers

8)Tweet:  Good morning

- I dont know why this bugs me, but it does

7) #followfriday @personA @personB

- This was a good idea at first, but now, its just too much, twitter on Friday is a waste land of follow this and follow that, there should be a rule, you can only recommend  up to 5 people on followfriday

6) Please get me X more followers before I hit X

- What is the deal with getting these followers, as if this is the end goal of Twitter.

5) welcome new followers @persona @personb

- I dont get it,  I cringe when i see my name in that list of welcomes.

4)Tweet: ” I have no idea how this works” or “tweet” or” trying to figure out twitter”

3) No pic – no image – empty profile

- come on man, your on a social network for bananas sake, tell us your name at least

2) following thousands – 0 tweets

- Happens with newbies who all they care for is followers, for those, i have a special block button

1) Following 0 – followed by many

This bugs me the most. And the person that bugs me the most is non other than Dr Phil @DrPhil. Dr Phil thinks that no one on twitter has anything of value to say, no one, not @garyvee, not @chrisbroagan, no one. You know how twitter has a rule where it blocks people from adding more than 2000 people. Twitter should implement a rule that blocks people from getting more than 2000 followers if they don’t follow anyone. If you are too good to follow anyone on twitter then you need some help, Dr Phil, know anyone?

What bugs you on twittter?

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Time to give some thing up – twitter on the block?

Have you kept up with your new years resolutions? Seems like we tend to go off and enjoy life and then feel guilty. We wait for some big event like new years and declare to the world our intentions to stop, lose weight, live better, blah blah blah.

New years resolutions fail because there are no strings attached, so if you want to really give something up, the main event, where not living up to your resolution is coming right up. That’s the grand daddy of them all, your last chance to be good this year is here, and if you don’t live up, you got a higher power to deal with.

So what are you giving up for Lent? I was thinking twitter, what do you think? Is twitter something to give up for lent? what will happen if I do? Will you join me? What do you think?

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Twitter follow back basics

What I like most about twitter is its ability to connect people who otherwise would not have been able to connect and allow them to have a conversation. However as you add followers and as followers start to follow you, you tend to lose touch with some followers and your twitter time line shifts quickly. Unfortunately there are some who just dont get twitter and care about having thousands of followers and no valuable content. For those some rules of follow back have to be established

Some follow back rules that I am using

1) If you add me, and have 2000 followers and < 500 following you, I will not follow you back.

2) If you add me and have 2000 followers and > 500 following you, I will only add you if you tweet something meaning full to me.

3) If you add me and have less tweets than followers, I will not add you back

4) If you add me and tweet once or twice a day, I will not add you back (what is the point, i am going to miss 99% of your tweets)

5) If you add me and dont have a pic or profile (odds are I will not follow you back)

6) if you add me, and I add you and after 4 week, i see that I have no clue who you are, I will unfollow you

7) if I add you, and you DM instantly with a blog post to check you out, I will unfollow you
8) If you follow me, and I dont follow you back, you remove me, and then follow me again so that i follow you, I will NEVER follow you back

Other than that,

I follow back, I follow people from all walks of life,  I am not concerned or impressed with the number of followers you have, I am more interested in your tweets and what you have to say.  I tend to follow those who converse with people I follow or people who tweeted around a topic I am interested in.

@sforzley

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