I’ve been writing most of my social media posts on my new social media consulting company site, but sometimes, you just want to speak for yourself and not the company.
I’m going to play a little game. I hope you indulge me.
I’ll go onto my Twitter feed, see tweets that annoy me and explain to you why they do.
Let’s play.
Ah. Also, just because I don’t like one of your tweets doesn’t mean I don’t like you. I’m just finding things that annoy me, not taking note of who is saying what.
1) Quotation marks
I blame TweetDeck and other programs for making this a default, but I hate the quotation mark thing. Whenever I put a tweet up, I go and remove them and put up ‘RT’.
2) Useless quotes that I don’t care about
I like humorous quotes, to be sure, but there are so many that try to be profound that mean little-to-nothing if you parse them. The above one also has bits of…
3) Spelling and grammar errors
What can I say, I’m a stickler. There’s a line between txtspk and just not making an effort. If I ever have any mistakes anywhere, please please please tell me.
This is actually harder than I thought… It would seem that I’ve stopped following the people who do the more annoying stuff. I’m going to have to go hunting now…
4) Links that aren’t clear what they are
What is this? It’s gimmicky making someone have to click to see what it is. And how often is it disappointing? (This one is a WTF sort of picture. Not sure why it’s a link and not an image.)
5) Overhashtagging
That’s five hashtags. And are there that many people who are on the lookout for the #papaya? I would think if you were that papaya obsessed, you’d probably be fine just searching for the word itself. (I wrote a post about Overhashtagging over on the RW Social site.)
Am I being too sensitive? Do any of these drive you crazy, too? What else makes you consider unfollowing someone?
I agree with all of what you have said here.
Thanks, A-Car :)
#5 annoys me too. I’m not a grammer nazi, because I love run-on sentences, but I don’t like when people don’t try at all.