How to Use Twitter

http://www.lockergnome.com/craighton/2011/12/21/how-to-use-twitter-the-right-...

Do you try and tweet from the heart and soul, but you keep getting shot down by angry unfollowers telling you simply that "you're doing it wrong" without offering any helpful suggestions for improvement? Well, here we try and give you a better foot going forward so you can minimize flak from the dissatisfied and satisfy your desire for Twitter perfection. (Accentuating the positive, see?)


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[PixeIIe]

What drives me a little more crazy than I already am are those people who use Twitter like a cell phone (shorthanding things like "u" for "you" and "b/c" for "because" if there are at least 40 characters remaining). I still follow them, however. I like to think of my Twitter account as yet another enjoyable experiment in social psychology. You get to learn all kinds of things about a sampling of the population such as how many people think half naked profile pics in a bathroom mirror is cool.

[KidBajan]

@elisha311 - You basically followed a spam account.

[ubaksh11]

I'm kinda on the fence with the ghetto trending topics like #youneedanupgrade or #shestooyoungforyoubro. They are stupid but theory are a great way to share jokes and such.

[mikejmckeon]

@lahav1 lol they're two totally different things

[lahav1]

i have a better opinion, you all gonna hate me and vote down but still.

here it is: Fuck twitter! there's Facebook, much simpler. there is nothing that twitter has that Facebook doesn't do better. end of story.

good day.

[elisha311]

I hate following somebody because I see one funny tweet then 90% of my page is filled with "Follow this person their so funny" ....and then besides the annoyance you follow them anyway and their doing the same thing "Follow this person..etc" pisses me off

[iskadobadsf]

i only use it as an online newspaper, because all i need is just there and i don't have to open 50 tabs.

[SitcomReviewer]

i agree with most of this, but the part on irrelevant tweets is opinion.

[itsDoubleAA10]

Good advice to not follow people you dont find interesting.

[JKNProductions1212]

i love the way that ios has you follow conversations