Update: This article from last year deserves another look, so we’re moving it forward for your enjoyment.
It can be argued that those of us who tweet links to content on the web are the most annoying of Twitter users. That is the “category” that I fit in, so it makes sense that I would exclude my personal type from this list.
Otherwise, there are probably dozens of other types that are just as annoying. This is, of course, a partial list, but we’ll be expanding the post once more annoying Twitter types come to light. In the meantime, here’s the first 14. Post any that we missed in the comments or tweet at us with your suggestions.
1. The FOREX Spammer
With as much money as people are apparently making on FOREX, it’s amazing that they have time to work their Twitter accounts.
2. The Linkjacker
When you post links to stories, you really should make sure that everyone can see what the story says rather than link to your own site and expect people to click through from your site to the source content. Just a thought.
3. The YELLLLLLERRRRRR
IF YOU TWEET, EMAIL, IM, OR DO ANY FORM OF COMMUNICATION IN ALL CAPS, IT MEANS THAT YOU’RE YELLING WHATEVER IT IS THAT YOU’RE TRYING TO SAY!!!!!! MAKE SURE THAT WHAT YOU YELL IS WORTH YELLING!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!
4. The Twitter Gamer
Unlike many, I have nothing against the games on Twitter like SpyMaster, Mafia, Ninja, whatever. I actually play SpyMaster in the background. However, there’s more to Tweeting than posting your last gaming action. For those not in the game, it can get rather mundane if all you post is who you’ve assassinated, what weapons you’ve purchased, and how we can join your clan/family/ring/dojo.
5. The “Get 100 Followers a Day” Spammer
Have you ever noticed that most of the accounts that Tweet about being able to pick up hundreds of Twitter followers per day only have 84 followers?
6. The Celeb Who Has 2 million People Following their 3 Tweets Per Month
I know. Everyone loves Oprah. You can’t say anything bad about her because she is perfection boxed up into human form. Still, what are her 2 million followers doing? She doesn’t talk to any of them. She rarely tweets at all (going on a month of inactivity). It reminds me of the people who followed Forrest Gump on his runs across the country. They were there, waiting for him to say something magical, and it never came.
7. Porn Spammers
It’s the Internet. Porn is everywhere. Why would anyone go to Twitter to find it? Answer: they don’t.
8. The Repeater Tweeter
These are amongst my favorites. You see them in your stream – the people who have something so important to say that they have to say it over and over again in case you missed it 30 seconds before.
9. The Random Tweeter of the Utterly Mundane
I know Twitter in its purest form is supposed to be somewhat mundane, but some people take it way too far.
10. The MLM Spammer
Everyone has to make a living, and because Twitter is about networking it has become a natural fit for the MLM crowd. That doesn’t make it any less annoying.
11. The Quoter of Witty Wisdom
Some of the best quotes I’ve ever seen came from Twitter. I have been known to throw out some of my faves myself. Still, that shouldn’t be ALL that you tweet, should it?
12. The Super-Fan
Everyone idolizes someone whether they admit it or not. I feel bad and somewhat uncomfortable when I see those who are doing anything they can to get a reply from those they idolize. What will they do if they get a response?
13. The Account Named After A Twitter Action
That’s nice. What are you going to Tweet about? “Following @0boy back because he followed me!”, “Following @soshable back because he followed me, too!”, etc.
14. The Tweeter of the Same Link 500 Different Ways
They have one link they’re pushing. It’s the only thing they will ever tweet about, so if you’re really, really interesting in everything pertaining to that link, please follow these people. You won’t be disappointed.
15. The White Teether
I never knew about this one until @bobf_vstpgh pointed them out to me. Once I did a search, I discovered that there seems to be a growing number of people Tweeting about white teeth! Who would have known?
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I know there are more of them out there. Let me know via comment here, @soshable or @0boy if you know of any other annoying Twitter user types.
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Along those lines … I somewhere also discovered
http://www.besttweets.com/
You get the idea.
Oh .. AND I am SURE that what I just said and/or did
is one of the most ANNOYING Types Of Twitter Users
To At Least A Reasonable Number Of Folks
And I CAN PROVE IT !!!
(ps – i hate those … and the !!!!)
My least favorite tweets come from #SXSW and other events (whether it be a marketing/journalism conference via Twitter, etc.) where people are live tweeting absolutely every second. I can appreciate some gems of knowledge from my friends when they go to interesting seminars and whatnot, but it gets to the point where I want to stop following them until the conference is over. STOP OVERWHELMING MY TWITTER ACCOUNT!
LOL… These are really annoying, especially the how to get “100″ followers a day ones and the ones that repeat the same line over and over or with 100′s of @ replies with a link in it.
To me the most annoying tweeters are those that try to decide how other people should and should not tweet. Enough with the rules and the types and the categories. Follow, or unfollow, the rest isn’t up to you.
That pretty much sums it up. Nice post.
My fave is the ‘one-day enthusiast’. They are usually some hapless politico told by high command in November 2008 to ‘get on Twitter’ as that’s where everything is moving… then one or more important things crop up.
First (and only) tweet usually goes: “Going to give this tweeting thing a go. Let’s see who’s out there!”
I hate these ‘get 100 followers’ kinda tweets the most. I also agree that most of the ways you mentioned in your post annoyed us, but I do disagree with you on the point of quotes. As you said, you found some of the best quote from these tweets, I love to follow all who post great quotes.
Bottom line: Why do you follow one who post in such way? You are not forced to follow them and even you are not forced to receive their tweets. So better ignore them, hence they will not annoy you anymore.
LOL this was so funny. I have unintentionally followed more than a few of these. By far the least favorite of these is the random tweeter of the mundane with their: i love ice cream
…tweets. They remind me of the kid at school who had no friends and you felt sorry for them. So it always bothers me when it’s time to unfollow but if I @ them and they don’t respond and their next tweet is like: pizza is yummy 
…they gots ta go.
How about the RT King or Queen? They RT all the tweets they see in their Twitter stream. RT is ok with some comments but automatic RT’ing is annoying.
Or there’s this girl who tweets nothing but twitpics of her lunch. Yeah, what about that?
Agreed on all of your classifications, but you should extend the list! You forgot the annoying category of twitter user that insists on tweeting out every few minutes of whatever TV show/movie they happen to be watching.
Twittersluts, repeating nothing but grotesque rap lyrics about their SeXiNeZZ, shoutouts to people that just shouted out to them all copied and re-posted in one tweet, and all with horrible grammatical errors…
SocMed Gurus: People who ONLY talk about social media on social media. Found a great quote in my network the other day that said “You want to learn about social media? Then learn to be social, the media is irrelevant.” Not comprehensive, of course, but a very nice summary of the heart of what we are all doing, here!
I totally agree with your post.
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Yes! These types of twitter users always get blocked by me. I hope I’m not one of them…
I found myself agreeing with everything on your list. I especially despise the “Get X Number Of Followers A Day” and MLM Twitter users. The best part of Twitter is the fact that you don’t have to follow these people back and if you do happen to follow one of them and start getting spam from them you can always block and report.
How about #16, writers whose Twitter name is the same as their book title. You know, like Michael Goodell tweeting as ZenithRising.
If I’m following a “professional” via Twitter, I would like for them to sprinkle in a few personal things. Not just all business. In turn, I don’t care if they are watching “24″. Please DO NOT live tweet on your professional/business Twitter. It’s annoying. Create a separate personal Twitter.
great list, thanks for sharing, i think engaging with people one on one is important and also variety, always doing the same thing and tweeting in the same way can get a bit annoying
Rainn Wilson, the actor who plays Dwight Schrute on THE OFFICE, is the best celebrity tweeter I’ve found. He posts a variety of tweets about acting projects he’s on, his website, concerns he has about current events like Haiti, jokes he likes, other celebrities, and sometimes thoughts that are just completely zany. He doesn’t tweet constantly but he definitely tweets at least a few times per week. On Twitter he is @rainnwilson so you can see for yourself.
Love this! It sums up my thoughts better then I could have. Thank you.
You rock. Think I’ll go tweet this. #ursoamazing
*grin*
I constantly unfollow people i feel are annoying, well, i think that is the best thing with twitter. The freedom to choose who to follow.
According this list and what others are suggesting, it seems everyone is annoying in twitter.
Great list, but I agree with Manish Chauhan regarding Quotes. I follow several Quote sites, and I find them inspiring, entertaining and/or educational. In my opinion, they definitely have a purpose, and a legitimate focus that none of the other sites you mentioned have.
And I think that if what you do is Tweet Quotes then that’s all I expect from you, except for an occasional thank you to your followers for their RTs, or an encouragement to them to send in their own quotes.
The great thing about Twitter is that you can always Unfollow anyone that you find annoying!
I do agree with all of your other examples, though…and I have a pet peeve of my own to add to the list. The Tweeps who follow you who have Private Accounts. How do I know if I want to follow someone back if I can’t see their Twitter page and previous tweets? Fail!
Thanks for the article, it was a great read! : )
Very Good! I’ll make sure to abide by them.
Nice to have guidlines.
I love the “The Random Tweeter of the Utterly Mundane”.
Very amusing.
I have to say that the repeat Tweeter is definitely on my list of annoyances. I saw one with 12 repeat entries the other day…
I will admit I am guilty the linkjacker, where I will re-tweet. I am making a better effort to include the individual who originated the tweet.
good points!
You could also include big ben clock
http://twitter.com/big_ben_CLOCK
or http://twitter.com/bigbenclock
whats the sense of reading “bong bong” every hours?
And then there are the ones tweeting about 50 tweets per day, and the tweets often repeat in a few days which is annoying especially for those not using tweetdeck….
Hilarious Post~!!! Thank you!!
Would like to add people who tweet in short bursts saying not much:
Hi
How are you?
I’m fine, too, so where do you live? (look at Bio!)
I’m in ____ just killing time.
LOL 4 tweets saying nothing – Oh, also, the aggressive suitor:
“HOLLA AT ME”
Like a construction worker whistling at a girl passing by. What are we to say to that? LOL
Great post – I’m still laughing! Thank you!
x0x
Anita @ModelSupplies – and my annoying habit is tweeting waaaay too fast & too much in conversations!
I wonder if the newer “Real Time Search” indexing and ranking algorithms will eventually be modified to not only include the number of followers to a Twitter account within the quality score calculations, but to also evaluate the relevance of those followers to the topics indicated by the keyword used in the search query… It seems like every time I look at a follower list for a Twitter account with an impressive number of followers, I am struck by the complete lack of topic or industry relevance to that Twitter account’s primary topic or area of focus. I suppose these types of unrelated followers must come from one of those “Build a Million Followers in Hours” type of Twitter spam, but is that an indicator that those systems actually work?
Nice list of things not to do. I will try to avoid doing these too much. My general idea is to vary my tweets so I can put a few of these out once in a while, but generally keep on topic with interesting info. I think as long as your not blasting people with one sales pitch after another, you can grow a decent following without losing them.
nice list… one more suggestion: Media outlets who automatically and constantly post their stories on Twitter without bothering to customize the tweet to actually fit into the 140-character space
Yesterday I BLOCKED a guy who used a below the salt tactic to get people to his site. He was a struggling musician with 59,000 Following and the same number of Followers which was quite decent of him.
What got to me was the fact his headline read: NASA discovers another planet.
There I went and clicked and I got a Youtube video. Then I said to him: Are you sure this is the right link? Or are you misleading people to your site? He blatantly said Yes, I am. I then replied: That´s not on. For that you´ll get a BLOCK.
Nice list.. one comes across several such twitter users daily..
I’ve come across all of those tweets… and would like to add the #hashtag #abuser who #peppers their #tweets with a #random #hashtag every word or two. Highly obnoxious. #unfollow.
I’m seeing people with lack of twitiquette; most non social types based on their chronic complaining tweets directly at people they have never met. Perhaps psychos or twits? They become blocked and I’m sure their chitter chatter will show on a nice google query by their potential employer
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Great blog! What annoys me is when someone grears everyone on their follow list in the morning and evening. A simple and general good morning and good night works just as well…unfollow!
My least favorites are the ones that put BLAOW, POW, or BOOM at the end of their tweets like what they tweeted was so mind blowing and amazing. Save that for “just created the cure for _______” tweet.
Add this one: People who tell you the “right” way to use Twitter.
5, 9 and 14 are the worst. And stupid celebrities.
Another one: Machine gun tweeters that fill up your timeline with countless tweets.
What about all the inspirational quotes? Barf.
How could you leave off the Quoter? Not someone who throws in a quote every now and then, but the people that have automated quote after quote! (with the occasional link to their SEO website).
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Great blog – enjoyed reading it. And who knew there were so many people going on about white teeth?! (Have linked to it from my own blog looking for Twitter tips – hope that’s okay.) Have a great weekend!
JAC
So very true and yet so many people (or probably just bots) on Twitter are guilty of this, glad I’m not; I’m interesting, witty, great and downright perfect (ahem..)
Nice article.
Ok, you mentioned most of Twitterers, now no space for the good ones!
Dang! This is a lol article & too true!