My Top Twitter Pet Peeves

I am just a novice tweeter. However, in the short time I've been tweeting, I've accumulated a few pet peeves about Twitter. Without further ado, here are my pet peeves of the social networking website:

Having Entire Conversations Via Twitter

Having a conversation on twitter, via the public portion. You can't do that. You're spamming everyone that shit when you tweet every 20 seconds during your 40 minute conversation. That's exactly how you lose all your followers. Any type of over-tweeting can be ground for un-following. It's just no fun to look at your twitter home page and all you see are messages from one person, especially if they're not of much interest. Twitter has a direct message feature. Use it.

Being Followed by an Aggbot

I'm not sure what an aggbot is, but I'm pretty sure I don't want it following me.

Providing Constant Updates of Your Boring Daily Activities Via Twitter

Giving a detailed rundown of your daily activities and your daily activities are mundane and couldn't be more normal or boring. It's one thing if you're on safari and fighting lions in Africa. However, we don't need to know that you just brushed your teeth and that you're about to take a shit. TMI. Also, once again, by constantly tweeting about your daily activities, you are clogging up your followers' twitter home pages. That's grounds for un-following.

Illiterate Tweets

The inability to write coherent sentences is not appealing. I understand your tweet must be 140 characters or less. I understand that the use of "U" and "R" might help you make that limit. However, making your tweets somewhat decipherable is desirable. Just because you're limited to 140 characters does not mean you shouldn't include any vowels at all.

Twitter's Suggestions for "Who To Follow"

Today, I asked Twitter "Who To Follow." Based on who I currently follow, Twitter thinks it knows me enough to suggest other people I may want to follow. So, I decided to see what Twitter thinks. Apparently, the 2^nd most likely person I will follow (that I'm not currently following) is @fidelcastro. Yes, that Fidel Castro - the one whose description is "Lider de la Revolucion, Salvador del Pueblo Cubano." And, apparently, it's also important that @fidelcastro is followed by @osamabinladen. I suppose that is supposed to entice me to follow el Cubano.

Twitter also suggests I follow @Putin. Yeah, that's Vladimir Putin, the one who's known for the "KGB and some other stuff..." according to the description. Of course, neither Putin nor Castro has been "verified" by Twitter.

To Follow or Not to Follow; To Tweet or Not to Tweet

To follow or not to follow? To tweet or not to tweet? These are the responsible questions we must ask ourselves when using the social network. Please choose wisely, and do so literately, in moderation. Thanks.

Sources:

http://twitter.com/#!/_L_I_V_I_N_