DISQUS

damienbasile (Damien Basile) · 1 year ago

How to loose friends and uninfluence people http://bit.ly/cXqJ

thedogsdish (Sophie Robbins) · 1 year ago

@DamienBasile LMAO! love it! RT http://tinyurl.com/5h4dwg

Adam · 1 year ago

What about Magpie? That has to be one of the worst things EVER.

Alhan Keser · 1 year ago

Great post. I have been on Twitter long enough to experience all of the above, but I can imagine how annoying some of that can be.

Roger · 1 year ago

@Adam Damn I forgot Magpie as I use Tweetdeck and filter out any #magpie messages now so that I don't have to unfollow people for using it ;)

Michael Martine - Remarkablogg · 1 year ago

Ugly Twitter page backgrounds that only work look right on a 30-inch monitor. Best of all: tile some garish image that makes my brain hurt to look at it.

<abbr>Michael Martine - Remarkablogger´s last blog post..The Revolution will be Twitterized - Twitter Revolution Book</abbr>

Gypsy · 1 year ago

I agree with most of these. Just make sure to check the profile of those without an avatar to make sure you don't want to follow them, before "unfollowing". My personal twitter account I signed up for a while back and had no issues with uploading an avatar image. I just signed up for my 'work/designs' account and took me days to figure out, after much searching around on the web, that you can't use a .gif image for the avatar. Twitter has been having issues with this for a few weeks now. Apparently even a lot of .jpg images aren't being uploaded as well. So .png are the best bet, but not a lot of word has gotten around about this.

DrimoN (Dan Rimon) · 1 year ago

How to lose friends and uninfluence people http://tinyurl.com/5h4dwg

Avinio (Avi Joseph) · 1 year ago

How to lose friends and uninfluence people http://bit.ly/cXqJ

thedogsdish (Sophie Robbins) · 1 year ago

this is funny just passing along http://tinyurl.com/5h4dwg

Juan · 1 year ago

Good post. I agree with most of them, would have to add magpie as mentioned above and also people who i would call "RT spamers". Its annoying to get the same 10 links from always the same 10 people who RT each others tweets.

Graham Smith · 1 year ago

My best way to lose friends and uninfluence people is as follows:

Firstly, put a big shout out to everyone you know asking for some urgent help with a big problem you have, but something you know that most people are likely to have an answer for.

Wait a few hours. Obviously the more followers you have the better the results.

When satisfied that as many people have taken the time to help you out, then don't do anything. Don't say thanks or nothing.

I find that's an awesome method and works for me on a number of occasions.

Graham

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styletime (styletime) · 1 year ago

@jophillips even tho i blabbed about better things to do with 10 bucks and 10 mins i still used it ;) http://bit.ly/cXqJ

gracesmith (Grace Smith) · 1 year ago

Having a snigger at How to lose friends and uninfluence people: http://tinyurl.com/5h4dwg

bhenick (Ben Henick) · 1 year ago

Retweeting @gracesmith: Having a snigger at How to lose friends and uninfluence people: http://tinyurl.com/5h4dwg

Mike Smith · 1 year ago

Awesome post. definitely some great tips to follow if you want to be a douche bag :)

By the way, your header looks awesome. I love the changes going on with the design. Definitely a step in the right direction ;)

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styletime (styletime) · 1 year ago

How to lose friends and uninfluence people: Short sarcastic Twitter post http://tinyurl.com/5h4dwg

Meroko (Meroko Senpai) · 1 year ago

RT @styletime: How to lose friends and uninfluence people: Short sarcastic Twitter post http://tinyurl.com/5h4dwg

Damien Basile · 1 year ago

I speak to point #9 in this article Retweetimization http://tr.im/RTimize. If I find true value in your tweet it will REALLY dissuade me from RTing it if I have to reword it. IF you do it enough I will stop RTing your stuff. IF you keep doing little things like that eventually i'll unfollow you. Its a relationship of attrition.

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JayCruz (JayCruz) · 1 year ago

RT @styletime How to lose friends and uninfluence people: Short sarcastic Twitter post http://tinyurl.com/5h4dwg

GregoryLent (gregorylent) · 1 year ago

@rogerkondrat ah, dang, i thought this was your new avatar .. http://tinyurl.com/5h4dwg

Jerry Aulenbach, REALTOR®, BEd · 1 year ago

Excellent comments. I love the style, despite typos.

-Jerry

Jon Phillips · 1 year ago

Nice list! I agree with all the above! :)
And I especially agree on the point about auto-DMs as you already know hehe

styletime (styletime) · 1 year ago

If 90% of your updates are blip.fm updates then see http://bit.ly/cXqJ sorry for the sarcasm and I'm NOT telling u how u MUST use twitter!

Johnny · 1 year ago

Hilarious read, certainly some good advices here. Will make twitter a better place too, I suppose.

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Gayak (Gayak) · 1 year ago

Sarcastic post about loosing people on Twitter http://tinyurl.com/5h4dwg

joycloete (Joy-Mari Cloete) · 1 year ago

How to lose friends and uninfluence people on twitter: http://tinyurl.com/5h4dwg

Shawn Jooste · 1 year ago

How about people who only tweet links to their latest blog post without anything inbetween.

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Max · 1 year ago

Nice list, i think i sense the sarcasm in #15 , and the twitter account with no pic really annoys me!

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Sznq (Suzan Gray) · 1 year ago

How to lose friends and uninfluence people http://tinyurl.com/5h4dwg

martinfaux (Martin Faux) · 1 year ago

Some great twitter advice - http://tinyurl.com/5h4dwg

ellispratt (Ellis Pratt) · 1 year ago

Twitter - How to lose friends and uninfluence people http://tinyurl.com/5h4dwg

Intheblack (Josh Austin) · 1 year ago

Im sure many of you have already seen this, but just in case. How to lose friends and unifluence people on twitter http://tinyurl.com/5h4dwg

Bloggeries · 1 year ago

Funny list. I agree totally about blip.fm. For #11 another fav of mine is "Free Gift" and for #12 send someone an auto DM with a question but then don't follow back so they can't reply.

Found this through sphinn.

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Roger · 1 year ago

Hey Stuart, agreed for some its a great share but couldn't they be your friend on blip or last instead of having to follow via twitter where everyone has to have them in their stream?

janbmulder (janbmulder) · 1 year ago

LOL http://tinyurl.com/5h4dwg Thanks to Fintan.

sparklinks (sparklinks) · 1 year ago

RT: @janbmulder LOL http://tinyurl.com/5h4dwg Thanks to Fintan.

Design Meme · 1 year ago

Good list! :)

Although I get a lot of people replying, saying thanks, and even Re-Tweeting music links I post -- so the blip.fm one could be a matter of personal taste.

<abbr>Design Meme´s last blog post..Shadow: Follow Updates Quietly on Twitter</abbr>

David Leonhardt · 1 year ago

How about unfollowing everybody who does not follow you? The point of following someone is supposed to be that they have something you want to hear, not because you want them to follow you.

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Roger · 1 year ago

Hi David I agree in part I have followed people not bothered about a follow back but when you interact various times help them out and get no thanks or a follow back I thinks that's just plain ignorant ;)

stevenimmons · 1 year ago

Twitterfeed outposts with no value add can be a tad annoying (i.e. why follow when you can RSS subscribe). People that 'masquerade' and then DM me with links to some dodgy eBooks also don't last! Apart from that I'm easy going. If people aren't trying to 'game' the system I'm very relaxed and usually follow back...

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Malte Landwehr · 1 year ago

The sad thing is that I see intelligent people from seo and marketing committing the very mistakes you mentioned above every day. There are so many people out there who still haven't grasped the idea of Twitter.

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styletime (styletime) · 1 year ago

@Mary_W_Walters Hi Mary yes thats mine but the friendly url is http://tinyurl.com/5h4dwg

Mary_W_Walters (Mary W Walters · 1 year ago

Nice sarcasm by @styletime: re unhelpful Twittering http://tinyurl.com/5h4dwg

marketingbusca (António Dias) · 12 months ago

How to lose friends and uninfluence people on TWITTER ... http://is.gd/bdQb Please Retweet. And thank you for following me...lol

Stephen · 11 months ago

I love it, Great list. I know most of it is common sense, but there are so many people who just get lost on tweetiquette.

willingthrall (willingthrall) · 11 months ago

How to lose friends on Twitter: http://tinyurl.com/5h4dwg

rvhooijdonk (Van Hooijdonk) · 11 months ago

Leuk artikel over hoe je je volgers op Twitter kunt kwijtraken. Enjoy: http://tinyurl.com/5h4dwg

MichDdot (Mich D dot TLDs) · 11 months ago

Reading: How to lose friends and uninfluence people [IMHO best Twitter Post Yet] http://tinyurl.com/5h4dwg