How many of you are on Twitter?
*Surveys crowd raising their collective hands.*
Ok, how many of you are constantly annoyed by other people’s tweets?
*Notices no hands have gone down.*
This little guys keeps annoying stuff in his diary, as should you.
Now, I’m excited to be going on a couple of weeks straight without a suspension, but sometimes I wonder why in the fiery red heck I was so depressed to be without Twitter when these are the things that annoy me on an hourly basis (Yes, I check Twitter that often):
1. Spam-a-lot Spambots: Go away, all of you! I don’t want to work from home and earn $8.2 zillion dollars a minute, I don’t want to buy your special tupperware, and I don’t want to be a beta reader for your imaginary “publising” company. That’s right, I got a spammerific offer to be a beta reader for Ristrict Publishing. If you google them, they don’t even have a website. They have a Twitter account (where they talk about their budding “publising” company in their profile), a Facebook page, and a youtube book trailer for something called Thuggin In Miami or something. Alrighty then…
2. Inspirational Quotes…on Repeat: I hate when I see a good quote, such as “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them” (Walt Disney), and then I see it again, and again, and again…by the same PERSON! It comes across as a fake attempt to seem “real.”
3. Teaser Tweets for books: Normally I love these and I have even purchased a few books based on an intriguing sentence the author has posted on Twitter. But I hate the ones that post mundane sentences like “Betty had a hankering for pancakes but knew she was out of Nutella.” That is not a compelling sentence, people. Not in ANY genre. Sorry.
4. High & Mighty Hashtags: I #hate #tweets that #looklike this for #no #reason and it #makesmewantto #start a #hashtag #topic called #Ihopeyourshoebecomesuntiedandyoufalldownthestairs.
5. Killing me with Klout: Why, oh why, do some people log onto Klout and give a measley little Klout point to 839 of their closest friends and associates? It clogs up the twitter feed like chicken guts poured down the drain of a kitchen sink. Stop it! (Unless you want to give ME Klout. My score is only like a 23 or something.)
“Stop annoying each other or we’ll banish you to MySpace!”
So there you have it. My love/hate relationship with Twitter. I can’t live with it, but when they suspend me, I whine a lot. (Feel free to follow me though, I don’t do any of those things I listed above.)
What do you hate about Twitter?
journeyofjordannaeast 
Pornbots. Always the pornbots -_-
I block the pornbots immediately. Not even going there, haha.
I hate that you can’t tell when someone replies to your tweet if you don’t log in using a cell phone. I’ve been late to the party plenty of times because I don’t check my email fast enough. I can’t stand the spamming either.
But other than that, I enjoy twitter. I still don’t know how people are finding me, but whatever. They can follow me–doesn’t mean I’ll buy their book LOL.
Keep smiling,
Yawatta
Do you have the twitter mobile app? Or you could link your twitter account to your cell phone and notifications, such as replies, will come to you as text messages.
People respond to tweets? LOL–I am so lost.
They sure do! Sometimes. I had a full-on conversation with the founder of Triberr today about how to work his fricking Triberr.
LOL. I do if they say something interesting.
And that’s why you’re not a tweet creep.
I thought I was the only one getting annoyed by twitter. Half the tweets I see are almost unreadable because of endless amounts of hash tags. I notice that a lot of authors continuously post lines from their novel or reviews for their novel, rather than tweeting their own thoughts. I viewed twitter as a place to connect and somewhat, get to know other authors. I didn’t realize it was a place where people continuously plug their own work, without every posting anything of substance.
I know! I try to post stuff that gives followers a sense of my personality. I plug my blog like twice a day, but I don’t think that’s too bad. But other people overdo it completely.
Two times is not bad at all. Some people do it constantly, it makes me want to stop following them. I can’t imagine what people who read their books think.
I’m on Twitter, and I don’t know what the heck I’m doing. Cryptography has never been one of my strong points, but I do get links to some neat articles.
Yes, there is a lot of good information floating around Twitter. That’s my favorite part.
I think I love you.
Hmmm, I really don’t know what to do about that. I guess I could be less funny?
I’ve still not been brave enough to join lol
Xx
Oh no! Why not?
Because I just know that if I do I’ll spend even more time online lol 🙂
Xx
True. Fair enough.
Ugh is there a love button for your hilarity! I would SOOO retweet #Ihopeyourshoegetsunitedandyoufalldownthestairs. ROTFL. So glad your back on Twitter though.
It’s great to be appreciated for my funniness (Is that a word? I dunno) Btw, did you knock on wood when you said you were glad I was back on Twitter? Because I did.
Was I supposed too? Lool. ;D
YES! If I get suspended again I’m blaming it on your lack of wood knocking.
Oh perfect. Haha! As if I don’t have enough to worry about on my own 😛
I love reading these. They’re hilarious. Especially the “pancakes & nutella.” That book just makes me want to sit in my rocking chair and not get up all night!
Thanks so much, I’m glad you enjoy them!
Thanks! Stop by again sometime. 🙂