4 Worst Types of Twitter Users
As many of you are well aware by now, some of the peeps you are following on twitter can flat out get on your nerves. You know what I am talking about! These are more than likely newbies to the twitter scene or social media in general and have no clue on what they are doing. Typically, they are easy to spot. While many of these types can get on your nerves, so can actually be entertaining to a certain extent.
I am going to talk about the 4 most annoying types of users on twitter I have come across. Let me know your thoughts on each, or if you feel that there is a type that should be part of the top 4.
Shameless Pluggers
First and foremost are the “shameless pluggers”. You know exactly who I am referring to. This is the twitter user that does nothing but spam your twitter feed with blatant, spammy attempts to get you to check out their lame product. While some users may very well have a good product to offer, they will probably lose more business by using twitter the wrong way. For example, I don’t need to hear about your “acai berry diet” on my “aneroxic help group” twitter account. I mean seriously? (please note I do not actually have an aneroxic help group account)
Twitter Trolls
Up next we have the “twitter trolls”. For whatever reason, this user is the type that will follow you around twitter no matter what in order to sabotage anything you do. Their sole purpose is to make your twitter life hell by attempting to ruin your image among your followers. Trolls exist for a number of reasons, such as jealousy or no real “social” life at all.
It’s best not to “feed the trolls” in that if you simply ignore them, most of the time they will eventually find someone else to bother. By not responding to them, you don’t give them anymore reasons to continue following you around on twitter. Soon enough they will get bored and be gone, soon enough your twitter life will be back to normal.
Chronic Retweeters
I like retweets just as much as the next person, but I am not fond of twitter accounts that consist of nothing but retweets, aka “chronic retweeters”. Of course if something is worth retweeting (such as this post), by all means retweet it! Seriously, it’s nice to share something original with your followers. Not something like “today i am having a turkey sandwich for lunch”, but something of real value for your followers.
Failure to provide substance to your followers is a sure fire way to lose a good chunk of followers. If you are a “chronic retweeter”, step away from twitter), and come back when you can offer the world something relevant.
Self Proclaimed Marketing Gurus
Finally, we have the “self proclaimed marketing gurus”. While I will not get into a debate on what establishes someone as a “guru”, these self proclaimed ones are very easy to spot. Some notable characteristics of these users are that they can fall into the “shameless plugger” category above, do not have their own domain name (ie. use blogspot, or wordpress.com domain names), and are ultimately marketing one of those products that made them “$624,756.92 in the past 7 days”. Seriously, does anyone by into that hype? Unfortunately the answer is yes.
These self proclaimed gurus are for the most part not making any money at all. They are struggling because they are going about it all wrong (completely different topic all together). However, they want YOU to believe their method/system works and that they are truly a guru in marketing and want you to buy into what they are offering.
Are there successful marketers on twitter? Yes, of course there are. Finding the self proclaimed gurus not making any money are easy to spot if you know what to look for. Maybe we should make a game out of it?…..hmmm…..
So There You Have It
Those are my top 4 annoying twitter user types. What are yours? Are any the same as mine, or do you have something different? Maybe I completely overlooked a group deserving to be in the top 4…if so let me know!
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