I’m doing this not because I loathe you, Twitter. It’s the people that occupy your space. Well, not everyone. But it’s happening enough for me to feel the need to make it official via a dedicated blog post.

1. Groveling for the Re-Tweet. If you have to ask via “please RT”, then your content isn’t good enough. And/or your tweet wasn’t compelling enough to make me click through.
2. The name of all major Twitter platforms, tools and products. Twellow, Twifollow, whatever just make it f’ing stop.
3. Follow Friday. There, I said it. What. Although I do have a caveat to this – blog posts about interesting and useful people to follow (as Social Search Marketer does) are cool. It’s just that I won’t follow any fool, so I need some context as to why I should follow a given person or brand.
4. Auto-Anything. DM’s, follows, replies.
5. When people are surprised you didn’t see their tweet. Like I’m supposed to have a custom feed for just you. Please.
6. Those that RT complements they’ve received via Twitter. It’s just tacky. (Fake example: ohh you’re too kind! RT @example that article you wrote was AMAZING..)
7. When people sign off for the night saying “Good night Twitterville” – or some variation of. Suuuper untight.
8. The #twittercrush hash tag. It makes me not feel safe.
9. “Power tweeters” that auto feed their posts into Facebook. It’s just too much duplication and that kind of status update activity is not meant for Facebook.
10. People that use the term “power tweeters”. Wait, that may or may not just be me.

So maybe I can’t stop at just ten…

1. Offline Twitter handle references
2. The waterfall of Tweets. AKA, when an account is untouched all day and then you get like 6 updates in a row and nothing for another 24 hours. That’s you Anderson Cooper.
3. Posted links with no context. I’m a busy (or is it lazy?) girl and I will not risk a wasted click. I need to be clued in to what I might be clicking to.
4. Excessive hash tag use
5. The fact that so many people don’t actually read the content they are RT’ing. I just have a really hard time believing that people took the time to read a lengthy article AND feel strong enough to endorse it, like immediately after someone posts it. At least when it happens regularly. Talk about diminishing your credibility.
6. Anyone that “casually” references the number of followers they have in a conversation. Really? In no way does this increase your stock.