6) Only retweet and never share an original thought&8211; To piggy back on 7, it&8217;s not okay just to retweet. Do you have an original thought in your head or are you a social media parrot who can only engage by retweeting what other people say? Everyone has original thoughts, so share them. I&8217;m sure there are some folks who might find them useful&8230;maybe it might be me.
This is like the rules of the road&8230; @TweetSmarter: 10 Surefire Ways To Get Me To Avoid Your Twitter Account
So, this article is for everyone who has a Twitter account. If you do the following things, it&8217;s likely that I&8217;m not going to follow you or retweet you ( you irrelevant to me on Twitter) and in some cases, I might even report you as a spammer.
I&8217;m a twitter newbie, but noticed your 7 about people right off! I feel the same way. I found this blog post because I was trying to find answers to a Twitter etiquette question I have. This post came up on my Google search results. I&8217;ve been tweeting my own thoughts and am having them retweeted. Do I credit myself in my tweet in any way? Or is that bad form?
RT @socmedsean: Trimming my Twitter following to keep the stream meaningful. Here&8217;s what I use as criteria when unfollowing.
&8211;Sean
The problem is that many of these offenders, aren&8217;t necessarily newbies. So, this article is for everyone who has a Twitter account. If you do the following things, it&8217;s likely that I&8217;m not going to follow you or retweet you ( you irrelevant to me on Twitter) and in some cases, I might even report you as a spammer.
This user has thousands of followers and has never tweeted. Spam.
I hate the automatic DMs that tell me that someone I just followed uses True Twit. I&8217;m sure it&8217;s bot- generated but it makes me feel imposed upon. Also the Mafia Family invites.
7) Tweet quotes&8211; The number one thing that really chaps my @ss are people who can&8217;t come up with something original of their own to say, so they just spend their time polluting the Twitter stream with quotes from mous people. If you want to spend your entire day quoting Mark Twain or Ronald Regan, don&8217;t expect me to follow you.
So there you have it. 10 things to make sure that I never read your tweets, never follow your account, and never engage with you (or your business) online. I have a feeling that I&8217;m not alone in this and others use these very same standards to deciding whether to follow an account, so if you engage in some or all of these tactics&8230;enjoy your social media solitude.
And on the flip side of my last tweet&8230; 10 Surefire Ways To Get Me To Avoid Your Twitter Account
For those who have figured out how to use it, Twitter has become a great way to find useful information and to build online relationships. For those that haven&8217;t, Twitter often looks like a big, jumbled-up mess of unstructured conversations. I can&8217;t count the times that someone has told me that Twitter is &8220;useless&8221;, &8220;too confusing&8221;, or &8220;just a place where people talk about what they ate for breakst&8221;.
Also, be sure to check out my other article
I have to add another one to this list. If you have &8220;I follow back&8221; or something like &8220;follow=follow&8221; in your profile, it indicates to me that your content isn&8217;t good enough for me to follow, you&8217;re just trolling for bigger numbers. In these cases, I won&8217;t follow.
nicely put&8230; good reminders for all of us! 10 Surefire Ways To Get Me To Avoid Your Twitter Account
8 ) Only tweet your check-ins&8211; Don&8217;t just sign up to Twitter and connect it to FourSquare, GoWalla, Yelp, and GetGlue and then only tweet where you are when you check-in. If we haven&8217;t built a relationship, I don&8217;t care where you are&8230;unless you&8217;re buying the coffee.
Great List! I would add sending replies with just a link &8211; I automatically report these users as spammers.
Spam me and see where that gets you...
4) Only talk about food&8211; The only exception here is if you run a restaurant, are a chef, or are a food critic. Then it makes sense. Hey, we all eat. Food is an integral part of staying alive and just as big a sucker for a good cupcake as the next guy. But don&8217;t make it the only thing you tweet about. There are other aspects of life than the ct that you just ordered a double soy chai and it&8217;s hot. Duh&8230;it&8217;s supposed to be hot.
5) Never tweet- Yes&8230;seems kind of like a stupid requirement that someone actually tweet, but you I get a lot of ridiculous follows from people that have thousands of followers and follow thousands, yet&8230;they somehow have zero tweets. Do you smell that? I smell Spam.
1) Spam me- Let&8217;s see&8230;a Twitter account mentions me and tells me that I need to click their link. So, they assume I&8217;m just going to click away, right? Wrong!! I&8217;m not stupid. I click their chaps personal chefprofile information and see that they have zero followers, follow zero people, and have no profile pic, and no profile info. Guess what, not only did you not get a click or a follow, you just got reported for spam.
Don&8217;t worry about crediting yourself. When you tweet someon10 Surefire Ways To Get Me To Avoid Your Twitter Account chaps personal chefe and they retweet you, it will show your Twitter handle. Good for you for searching out good Twitter etiquette! I hope this article was helpful in locating some of the &8220;don&8217;ts&8221;. I&8217;ll have a follow-up article on some of the &8220;dos&8221; coming soon
if you use an authentication service like TrueTwit&8230;forget me following you. You are NOT that special that you need special authentication and I will not jump thrombin extra hoops just to read your updates.
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I&8217;m just going to keep adding more of my Twitter pet peeves to the comments. Feel free to add yours too.
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3) Turn twitter into your own personal (yet public) text messaging system&8211; I don&8217;t need to know what the guy across the room at the club is wearing and whether he&8217;s hot. I&8217;m not there&8230;I&8217;m not going to ask him to dance. I don&8217;t need to know what so-and-so said about so-and-so last week by the lockers and I certainly don&8217;t need to know that your sister-in-law is not in your good graces because she slept with your man.
2) Don&8217;t be a human&8211; Talk about your brand, talk about your company, never talk about the people who are part of your organization. I&8217;m not engaged in social media to meet software. I&8217;m not engaged in social media to meet press releases. I&8217;m not engaged in social media to meet products. I&8217;m here to engage with people and I want to know the people in your organization.
Love 2 and 1 : spam and robot are like the worst things on twitter. But some automatization is not a bad thing, you can gain so much time for conversations with your follower community with tools like selectweet by scheduling your tweets to precise time and day over time. Here is the solution!
And more sensible advice for new Tweeters&8230; 10 Surefire Ways To Get Me To Avoid Your Twitter Account
I love your tone!!
I recommend this article as a basis for small businesses trying to get a presence online, especially if you don&8217;t have the budget to employ someone to take care of your social media department. It&8217;s good to learn the basics!
. I&8217;ve noticed many of the same with people following me and the odd person with 20000 followers and only following 50. I hate spammers too
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9) Don&8217;t add profile information&8211; You&8217;d be amazed how many people out there don&8217;t have their profile information filled in. It doesn&8217;t have to be in-depth, but tell me what you&8217;re interested in and what you&8217;ll tweet about.
BTW, Veronica, I just published another article on 10 ways to get me to follow your Twitter account. Hope you enjoy it!
10) Don&8217;t add a photo of yourself&8211; If you don&8217;t add a photo, it&8217;ll be clear to me that you don&8217;t take Twitter seriously enough for me to follow you.
What&8217;s a photo have 2 do w/ being serious?? RT @TweetSmarter: 10 Surefire Ways To Get Me To Avoid Your Twitter Account
&8211;Sean
&8211;Sean
10 Surefire Ways To Get Me To Avoid Your Twitter Account chaps personal chef,Aside from the problem that Twitter.com is an unstructured, hot mess (hence the need for tools like TweetDeck and HootSuite), the jumble of information is contributed to by a lot of folks who: a) don&8217;t know what they are doing, b) don&8217;t know the rules of the road, or c) are posting content just to inflate their numbers.
