- Following everyone and anyone; indiscriminate following, in the hope you get followed, is a short term action with long term consequences. Before I follow someone, I often look at who they are following. That way I can get a feel about their interests.
- Not having a profile photo or putting up a picture of your dog. I want to follow a human ad I want to know who they are. Anonymity doesn't allow for constructive tweeting.
- Random discussion. A bit of chat is fine, but when my Twitter stream is filled with a discussion on the merits of gooseberry jam versus Seville marmalade for the morning toast - then I'm going to do some unfollowing.
- Too much personal information: I really don't need to know about your dandruff, your toenail fungus or what you got up to last night. Perhaps you could save that for private discussions amongst close friends.
- Using Twitter to sales pitch using automated Tweets: Endless automated tweets, or even ones done by hand which continually sales pitch your own stuff can feel a bit mob-handed and lead to unfollowing.
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Tuesday 24 July 2012
How not to use Twitter
There are no hard and fast rule for using, or abusing, Twitter. But here are some of my "cautions".
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