Over at NikkiPilkington.com, we’re thrilled to be helping people looking to use Twitter for Business with our TweetMentor programme. We’ve been asking our subscribers what their pet Twitter hates are, and here are the ten that came out top:
ONE – MOANING
There’s no better way to drive your followers away than spend your entire time on Twitter moaning about this and that irrelevancies. It’s fine to have an opinion, it perhaps makes people engage with you, but if you’re just there to complain about your love life, stop Twittering and go on the Jeremy Kyle show.
TWO – TXT ABBRVTNS
Stpd pple use txt abbrtns on Twttr! It might be good if you’re a cheapskate trying to save money on your mobile phone bill, but Twitter is free. Surely you have sufficient grasp of the English language to actually make your message fit into 140 characters without resorting to txtspk. Avoid looking like a twt by avoiding text abbreviations.
THREE – ADVERTISING FOR FOLLOWERS
One of the best things about Twitter is that people follow you out of interest or allegiance; they don’t follow you because you ask them to do so. By advertising for followers, you end up looking rather desperate, devaluing your current followers and distancing potential followers.
Click here to read our full article about this and here for Tweetmentor!
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Couldn’t agree more with you, especially text speak. It drives me mad !!
I do agree about the txt speak but sometimes you have no choice. the RT is a fabulous function but those with long @names and who have used their 140 quota does mena that on accasions I am forced to resort 2 & B cos u haven’t left me ne choice
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Martin
Agreed, txt speak is so annoying and unnecessary on Twitter.
I agree with the “wittering on” as I have just unfollowed some people today for just repeating spammy type messages