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Another installment in my thrilling ‘Things you have to stop doing on Twitter’ series. Here are previous ones: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]

1. Tweeting personal things no one will understand

I’ve seen people lately tweeting things no one but a few people will understand, or stating things about people I don’t know “Bla bla is online, FINALLY!” “OMG bla bla doesn’t know bla bla bla”. It’s annoying. When I follow people on Twitter it’s usually to hear about their days with a humorous twist. If I cared about the people in your tweets I would follow them. Save it for #FF

2. Spamming links to articles constantly

I’m a tech nerd. I like tech things, but when you’re entire Twitter stream looks like the Twitter of Tech Meme, it gets annoying. Most people who will care about what the link is about will most likely have heard about it on another site. Stop trying to be the news.

3. Spamming pictures

Twitter is great, if you’re out and see something interesting you can tweet a picture; but when you send 10 pictures in 5 minutes it gets annoying. To make it worse most of the time it’s just one word before it “Flowers img.ly/shitcunt”. If I wanted to see boring pictures of your life I’d add you on Facebook.

4. Retweeting peoples tweets with “LOL” before them

There is nothing more annoying than getting a mention, only to see someone retweeting my tweet with “LOL” “TRUE” “+1” et al. on it. Twitter lets you retweet without adding a comments, so unless you have something interesting to add, just retweet normally.

5. Telling people you’re going offline

If you’re going offline for a while I don’t need to know. Twitter isn’t MSN, I don’t need any “brb”s or “afk”s. No one is getting worried when you don’t tweet for a few hours. Stop it. Stop it now.