7 Common Twitter Mistakes Almost Everyone Makes

July 8, 2009

Whether you're a Twitter n00b or an old pro, you start to get annoyed by missteps that new users make — and again, the old pro users too! I think most of us have made some of the following common mistakes in the time we've been on Twitter. Check them out and see if you're guilty of any!

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8 Comments

aniline 3 years 28 weeks

Incessant hashtag use is so irritating. Other things that are wildly annoying - Listing huge bunches of names on followfriday for about 10 tweets in a row. Or RTing friends to the point where you have to unfollow half the friend group so that your twitterfeed isn't an echo chamber. I hope Twittersnooze comes back, I haven't found an alternative yet for when my friends go to conferences or temporarily decide that Twitter is All About Marketing!!![tm].

shiningeyes 3 years 44 weeks

I use a different avatar than the default for my twitter account, but not my face. As long as they don't use the default, I don't really care. Another thing that really irritates me on twitter... When an organization goes to a meeting of some sort and will tweet quotes from the speaker incessantly... or if someone goes to a big conference like comiccon and feels need to tweet every 2 seconds about every single thing. Don't spam me! Or when people put the # sign in front of every.single.word. Obnoxious.

shiningeyes 3 years 44 weeks

I use a different avatar than the default for my twitter account, but not my face. As long as they don't use the default, I don't really care.Another thing that really irritates me on twitter... When an organization goes to a meeting of some sort and will tweet quotes from the speaker incessantly... or if someone goes to a big conference like comiccon and feels need to tweet every 2 seconds about every single thing. Don't spam me!Or when people put the # sign in front of every.single.word. Obnoxious.

kedawen 3 years 44 weeks

Yay sontaikle, I'm glad I am not the only one who has two accounts! One personal, one professional. It just makes sense for me! Thank goodness for apps that makes it easy to manage multiple.

HaterTot 3 years 45 weeks

I would never use my face as my avatar. I don't know the majority of people who follow me (I write for several local blogs here in DC, and that's where most of my followers come from) and frankly I don't need strangers running up to me and asking if I'm me (which happens - not often - but enough so it's creepy, even without plastering my face all over the internet).

kia 3 years 45 weeks

I walk the fine 140 character line when I am out and drinking. I have someone proof my tweets before I send them.I also walk the fine line with my real user name. I joined twitter as a joke for my husband. He told me about Demi Moore going as mrskutcher and thought it was sweet. I signed up as mrsXXXXXX since I never took his last name IRL. The only funny thing is that now when folks see me around or at tweet ups they call me mrsXXXXX and I usually don't respond.

kia 3 years 45 weeks

I walk the fine 140 character line when I am out and drinking. I have someone proof my tweets before I send them. I also walk the fine line with my real user name. I joined twitter as a joke for my husband. He told me about Demi Moore going as mrskutcher and thought it was sweet. I signed up as mrsXXXXXX since I never took his last name IRL. The only funny thing is that now when folks see me around or at tweet ups they call me mrsXXXXX and I usually don't respond.

sontaikle 3 years 45 weeks

I have two twitter accounts :) One where I only follow friends and another where I only follow blogs and other interesting folks that aren't friends. It helps cut down on the "following too many people" mistake.