Twitter Etiquette
1. Don’t send all your tweets at once
I understand you only check periodically. Or you only get the time to check in your lunch break, but do me a favour, don’t send out 30 tweets in the space of 5 minutes and flood my page.
2. Have some original tweets
Sure @mashable, @kevinrose and @techcrunch post interesting articles, but I follow them too. You don’t need to retweet EVERY. SINGLE. TWEET… If all you are doing is copying other people’s content you are of no value to me, I could just follow them instead.
3. Don’t bitch if I don’t follow you back
This isn’t facebook and it certainly isn’t highschool. If you follow me, that’s great, but it isn’t an automatic follow back from me I’m afraid. I will probably follow you, I just like to, you know, make sure you aren’t crazy or anything.
4. Dnt tlk lyk ths
Srsly. I know there’s only 140 characters but come on, be creative. Other people manage it.
5. Don’t split up multiple tweets
You can say it one tweet if you try hard enough, you don’t need 2 or 3. It’s called a character LIMIT for a reason.
6. Don’t make every post about your latest blog post.
If I wanted to know every time your blog updated I’d subscribe to your RSS. Chances are I already have. I follow YOU on twitter to see what YOU are doing.
7.Don’t retweet your own tweets.
I got it the first time. I got it the second time. Why would I want it a third time?
8. DON’T TWEET ALL IN CAPS
Yes, @oprah, I’m looking at you.
9. I will never want to know when you are pooping.
Ever.
10. No really. I don’t want to know.
Honest
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If you liked this you might want to check out my post on Facebook Manners.
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What do you guys think? Am I missing anything?
