Twitter is a great place to make friends. But I must say that there may be many things that may irk your follower or friends. So this week I went more around twitter creating some friends and asking them what they hate. Also on the list I added things that I hate.
Auto Direct Messages
Ah! This is the most annoying thing. I just hate Auto Direct Messages. These are the messages sent automatically when you follow someone. I have asked a couple of friends of mine, regarding the most annoying thing on twitter and most of them said the same thing. Auto DMs. So this goes on top of the list.
cheth @atif089 Auto-Dm’s and a non-stop stream of Friendfeed/Twitter feed is annoying. #twitter #tweet #tweeple
syedbalkhi @atif089 Auto-DM reply piss me off alot, but tons of twitterfeed sent out all at once is really annoying as well.
mistygirlph@atif089 I guess it would be auto DMing asking if i want a million followers. I would appreciate it more just saying hello
Advertisements
This is most frustrating thing on twitter. I have seen a lot of people use some sort of PPC advertising on twitter like be-a-magpie and twtad. Apart from that most people put up affiliate links to clickbank products which is even more frustrating. Well for myself, I simply unfollow anyone in my friendlist whollows the above practises.
arnteriksen @atif089 Hehe – I guess it would be the ones that talk about gaining 30000 of followers in a few weeks.LOL #follow #twitter #tweet #tweeple
jayaugust@atif089 affiliate links, ‘marketing guru’s’ in general, spammers… All annoy the crap outta me.
Asking for ReTweets
Personally asking for ReTweeets may be a bit hindering for some people. Even I ask some people for ReTweets. But I advice you before asking a ReTweet make sure your content is good enough and make friends first. Simply adding people and asking for RTs wont work.
Direct Messages (DM)
This is more of my personal reason than a collective reason. I don’t link direct messages unless it is very personal. Rather I want people to send me an @reply which I usually keep checking.
naldzgraphics @atif089 those tweeple who DM me 3-4 times with the same tweets .
Self Promotion
Previously I only used to self promote my self on all social media websites like SU, Digg and Twitter. Trust me self promotion on social media is a big FAIL. The best practice would be make friends and submit each others content and help each others. This way you would get some good name and trust as well as traffic which is the key. This also includes boasting.
schallner @atif089 Brag about how many people they are unfollowing (every hour), and how many new followers they have to sort through.
0 Updates
Lol I have seen many account like this. These accounts tend to have a couple of thousands of followers but no updates. I don’t know why people follow them on twitter. Stay away from those people because I probably think they are out for some serious SPAM!
Spam
Even though twitter is very efficient enough in controlling SPAM but sometimes I get to see some people spamming the system like the most popular follow and unfollow.
Sumeet @atif089 Following and unfollowing after I follow back really gets on my nerves..
Asking for someone to click your ads
Well I won’t like to point out but I have seen some people asking you on twitter to click their Google Ads. personally it didn’t happened to me yet.
Bots / Feeds / FollowFridays etc.
People don’t like to see only feeds coming through your twitter account. Its a social media website and not a mashup site. Imporper #followfridays and protecting your updates.
DinOthman @atif089 too much twitterFeeds, nothing but quotes, #followfriday RTs and auto-DMs piss me off…
Nicksc @atif089 Excessive twitterfeed tweets annoy me the most. In fact, if I see more than two on the same page, I unfollow!
thomasmmm @atif089 impolite twitter snobbing
bexdeep @atif089 When u reciprocate to those who follow u, u find that ur request is pending. Thats quite irritating!. #twitter #tweet #tweeple
Update: Oh I mistook DinOthman’s tweet actually. He means he doesnt like followfrisday RTs i.e people simple RT each other’s followfridays, how funny is that.
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So true @#2
Hi Atif,
My apologies I couldn’t respond to you in time on twitter.
It takes all types of people to make this world so it is not surprising that on twitter, a sample of the same population, we find all types of twits too.
I will like to quote Wayne Dyer here – If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
My mantra (motto) in life is to be open minded and tolerant of almost everything so I hardly get ‘pissed’.
Whatever you focus on will get empowered so lets all focus on the positives of twitter.
Keep smiling and be positive always,
Pramit
Not a problem pramit. Thanks a lot for taking time and writing a comment. Well the quote is absolutely true but still there are things that can piss you off. Or perhaps I can say some people never give up bad habits. And thats what makes us annoyed.