etiquette

1. Tweet anything about “Get more followers”

If you advertise “get more followers” you can be sure that you will only get more followers that are just like you – trying to get more followers. There is no substance in that.

Case in point: @pyra_bang

2. Tweet links that go to any sort of multi-level marketing

Multi-level marketing, don’t get me started. Aside from that though, you can’t expect to get sales out of impersonal follow-at-random strategy. At least learn about hashtags, trending, and other social media tools that can help direct you toward people with money that don’t know how to spend it on good things. First tip: Search hashtags for #ispendmoneyondumbstuff

3. Have links that go anywhere other than where they say they will

Dirty tricks. Enough said.

4. No tweets

Either fill in your bio blurb or at least put an inaugural “Trying out this twitter thing” tweet

5. Duplicate your own tweets

We all have accidents or program glitches that duplicate posts something. But when I see:
XYZ is the best new supplement on the market
XYZ is the best new supplement on the market
XYZ is the best new supplement on the market
… ad nauseam, then I know that you’re a loser.

(This includes when you go to someones twitter page and see an @reply to 20 people with the same message)

6. Retweet your own tweets

see #5, it’s the same thing, really… thinly veiled Einstein.

7. Tweet at a “relevance ratio” higher than once every 15 minutes.

“Relevance Ratio” allows for more than the 1 tweet/15 mins from someone that tweets about things worth reading… or stuff that’s funny.

8. Every tweet is a link.

If I wanted to just “browse the internet” I have a BROWSER to do that. Get with the times, I don’t want just links, I want YOUR TAKE on the links. Sum up a story in 140 characters for me. To me twitter is a way to get EVEN FASTER information on the lightning speed internet.

9. Have an auto-responder Direct Message that sounds like a used-car salesman when I follow you.

“Thanks for following! I think we’ll be able to find you something to buy via my tweets very soon!” OR “Thanks for the follow! DM me any time if you have questions I can help answer!” – If you’re using an auto-responder when people follow you, chances are you don’t have time (or won’t take time) to respond to messages or mentions.

10. Chain many tweets together to encompass one thought.

They limited it to 140 characters for a reason… and that reason was not so you can see how many tweets you can overlap onto. If you can’t say it in one tweet – consider blogging! They go great hand-in-hand.