I’m definitely not a fan of the way some businesses use Twitter. For example, my least favourite at the moment is, tweeting for people who would like a #FollowFriday that week.

There is something inherently dishonest, or at least naive, about using Twitter this way.

Ian

It is super annoying when someone DMs you and you cannot reply in DM back because they are not following you. I usually stop following that person in such a case.

Also, another annoying thing is if you follow someone, then they send you a DM saying “thanks, and hey check out my blog/website/etc.” Even if it’s just a thanks and looking forward to your tweets, it’s still annoying to me.

The 140 characters real estate become a mess, people are seeing more and more irrelevant tweets (not every followers want to know what’s your conversation with someone else, especially if you don’t follow people that talk with you – i think that’s why Twitter changed it in the first place, so we can get relevant tweets on our feeds), and Twitter’s threads (in reply to) are gone.

I am confused on how this function works.

Thanks for all the great other information Shannon – I learned something new!

Oh, and on that same track… putting a space between first and last names in twitter handles, like @Natalie Grant or @natalie gulbis… I get both of those, not those ladies.

Not been able to DM people because they aren’t following you is annoying. I think they only think there followers will reply.

I think fun when people reweet the old way and then it get retweet by someone else in the new way.

A thing i think is strange is the people you follow and they don’t follow you back. But you have lot of @ convos with them but the only ever see your replies to them because they aren’t following you back.