How to Be a Jerk on Twitter
Social networking sins.
May 16, 2012 - 10:45 am
11 Ways Youre Annoying On Twitter from Buzzfeed:.
1. Crowd-source your followers
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Asking your followers to recommend restaurants/bars/tourist hot spots to you is the new Google, by which I mean: Why don’t you just use Google? Twitter-sourcing is the laziest form of research. It’s like going to the library, lying down on the floor, and asking relevant books to jump off the shelves onto your face. I don’t know. It’s fine. Just keep it to a minimum – like once a year, maybe. For example, I just asked MY followers what Twitter behavior they found annoying. If, in the next twelve months, I find myself wondering where the best Sasquatch hotspots in the Midwest are located, tough luck. I will be doing that woods-wandering unadvised.
Only if your followers are thin-skinned. Or you consider “followers” to be “customers” and not friends.
I thought that was the whole point of social networking. Not just crowing about yourself, but seeking advice from people you know socially has been happening for years – and most people consider suggestions from friends to be more valuable than random (or gamed) search engine hints.
Yeah…if I’m looking for a restaurant in an area I’ve never been in before, I don’t know the reviewers on, say, UrbanSpoon. For all I know, they’re sockpuppets of the establishments’ owners. But I know my tweeps are real people, and I know which ones have similar tastes to mine.
My feelings on twitter are that 1. It’ll die long before Facebook as a form of social networking because 2. It’s for celebrities and people who don’t matter. Real people, average people like me don’t use twitter. What’s the point? Just my opinion.