Why I stopped following you…
Twitter peeps, take note! If you’re going to tweet, for the love of God, don’t do the following!
- Use every hastag under the sun to follow everything you say. #hashtag #sun #tweet #opinion #IsOnlyGoingToAnnoyMeAndMakeMeStopFollowingYou
- Retweet horrific news from CNN or other news media. Seriously, if I wanted to read about children and puppies being tortured, I’ll follow the news myself. Every once in a while something that is *vital* to my existence, such as say, the zombie apocalypse is okay. Sending me the weather alerts for Boise, ID is not.
- Stalk me. And I wish I were kidding, but some people have a bad habit of coming across as a little too smarmy and “I’m your number one fan” on Twitter. And I love my fans, but there are one or two of you who scare the crap out of me.
- Ask me to retweet almost everything you tweet. You already have over 1,000 followers. I don’t. Why in the name of heaven am I going to retweet a plea asking people to come to your blog?
- Don’t ever tweet anything personal or even of relevance, but do insist on signing up for Twitter horoscopes. Lemme clue you in. Those damned things show up Every. Goddamned. Morning. If you don’t pay attention to them, why do you subject me to them?
- Use Twitter for the sole purpose of promoing your book or web site. Trust me, people are smart to this tactic.
- And along the same note, tweeting the same information on a daily basis. Your tweets are only going to the people who follow you. The vast majority of your tweets have already been seen. I don’t need to see them five or six times.
- Use services such as Twitterfeed to ALWAYS retweet random nonsense from other tweeters. Um, if I wanted to always know what they say, I’ll just follow them, ‘k?
- Put the name of people you are replying to at the end of a tweet. All this does is force me into your conversation–which tends to be super disjointed since you’re conversing with forty or fifty people. @dontdothis
/rant
To all of you who don’t do the above, thank you! I enjoy your tweets and look forward to reading more. Did I miss anything?
p.s. If you haven’t found me on Twitter yet, please stop by! @dee_carney
These are great. Is it okay if I stalk you, just a little?
Mine:
1. the retweeting the @dealplus contest thingy drives me crazy. It’s not so bad nowadays, thankfully! It got so bad over Christmas and during the iPad launch that I almost unfollowed some of my favourites who retweeted a few times per day.
2. one copy of a book giveaway in return for 200 or more followers. I don’t get the logic of this. It can be annoying when they do this every week if not every day. Interact more in return for more followers, for goodness sake.
3. published authors who lock their Twitter accounts – I don’t get this either. If they want to keep it private, have a different account under a different name.
4. Not important, but acknowledge or name the sources of your links or info when reporting on Twitter or blog. It’s a matter of good manners, at least. 🙂
Only you have permission to stalk me. I would be insulted if you didn’t, in fact. 😛
OMG, yes! Would it be in bad form to write a nastygram to dealsplus and tell them to quit it!? And thanks for adding the others. I agree wholeheartedly!
1) Sponsored tweets. I mean come on, really? If you really want to make a penny and annoy your followers that is your dealio.
2) People who use twitter to be passive aggressive, like saying I am unfollowing @somebody because he is a conservative twat.
3) People who are follower collectors and constantly tweet about follower numbers and worrying why they get unfollowed.
4) This has caused me to block a few people–sending me @ replies asking why I unfollowed them…especially when I had not really had any interaction with the person.
5) People who retweet but put the retweeted person at the end (often w/o RT at the start) as a via @somebody
I will try to be a good girl and not tweet about mayonnaise too much.
Retweeting of SOMEONE ELSE’s “clever” or “witty” comment is out of control. Some twitter feeds are so polluted by retweeters that it’s impossible to follow. If I wanted to follow the person you’re such a big fan of I would. And if I did follow that person I would have already read that tweet. Makes no sense and is incredibly annoying. We all do it occasionally, but retweeting someone else’s every golden word…nah.
Mwa ha ha! I have nothing constructive to add. I just figured if I was going to live up to my stalker label, I should stalk early and often. 😉
Well, crap. I am now realizing this didn’t do the “reply” thing the way I’d intended. Ella and Maili, I’m sure you’ve figured out which reply belonged to whom. lol
@saschakeet lol! Although I’m guilty of this during the workday when it’s difficult to type on my iTouch. The problem is confounded when all of you follow each other…and then everyone’s retweeting the same thing–because they’re following person A, the same person you follow, who is retweeting person B who is also someone you follow…and so on.
@dhympha LOL about the Mayo! (To let y’all in on the joke, I can’t stand the stuff while she loves it. Ick. Many a twitter conversation about, of all things, a condiment.) Follower collectors crack me up. I mean seriously, is this high school? Sheesh. I want to converse with people with whom I have a common interest. Someone told me I should let the spambots continue to follow me so I can increase my numbers. Um, no.
@hailey–girl, I’m kind of stalking you. You know how much I adore men with wings. Yum…
So now we all follow each other and we know we’re funny so no need to retweet each other. See? Sometimes I like to mix it up with an odd boy retweet like Jesus or the cool astronaut who posts pictures from space. I share Dhympna’s reverence for mayo but sometimes she scares me with her orgasmic medieval nun tweets.