After reading the 7 Deadly Sins of Twitter by Tremendous News I started to wonder about other annoying habits of people on twitter. I came up with a few of my own. While not so bad they are examples of ways people either get around Twitter functionality or of a feature being used horribly.
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Why do this? By inserting a character infront of the @ sign your are negating the “in reply to” feature of twitter which makes following conversations extremely easy. There are so many other ways to get your point across. And if you’re using it to tell-off someone else publicly you’re breaking rule #5 from the link above.
#extralongarbitraryhashtags
If they’re more than 15 characters, shorten it. The chances that someone is actually following that hashtag is probably zero. And if you seem to think it’s cool to make up your own super long irrelevant hashtag for whatever you might be feeling at the moment, for example, #itrytoannoypeopleonpurpose, stop. That’s all, just stop. Besides, that’s so July anyways, short #tags are the new black. (side note: I did really say that, because I’ve wanted to say that and actually be in context with something).
SEOing your tweets
If you’re publishing a blog or pushing out job notices take note. You don’t need to include every single possible combination to keywords in your tweet. Especially if the last word ends up being incomplete (see example below).
Web pages work differently than tweets. There’s an art to optimizing a web page to search well. This art does not include a 140 character limit.
Can you think of any others?
–dez
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