I was following Daughtry and Seacrest, but they must tweet every 5 seconds. Drove me nuts because most of it was just dribble. So I unfollowed them. I liked to read some of their tweets, but when my whole page is theirs then no.

GET A LIFE AMERICA, THIS COUNTRY IS FULL OF UNPRODUCTIVE AND NON-INTELLIGENT PEOPLE, BASICALLY LOOSERS!!!

Excellent article. I totally agree. I will usually unfollow those who just tweet to tweet. I also really get annoyed at those who only tweet links … no quality posting … just links … or those who will announce seminars and then every 10 minutes provide a countdown.

I’m glad some of the comments mentioned about several tweets in a row. Something to watch for, that I didn’t realize was annoying to some.

Thanks!
Diana

Did you read my mind? I was just thinking about tweeting about tweeting too much, but I didn’t tweet it because I didn’t think it was the right place.

I unfollow with 95% certainty anyone who tweets more than 3 tweets at a time or too much in the sense that I get the “not that guy again” -feeling. I don’t want to see the same guy tweeting constantly and taking the attention away from the other people who I follow. I don’t want to scroll down pages after pages to see the other people’s tweets just because this one smuck is taking up all the space. If the tweets aren’t something I’d just DIE without, I’ll unfollow instantly. (I have one or two people who I follow who tweet too much but are too entertaining not to follow.) I even unfollow people who retweet content from other people in an excessive quantities, although I know they would probably retweet my tweets too without being too concerned about the quality. (Someone actually retweeted replies to a conversation he had with someone else, which was just completely useless to everyone else!)

This even applies to people I have followed because I like their content elsewhere. I might or might not continue to read their content elsewhere, it could be so annoying it turns me off their other content as well, but sure enough they won’t be on my tweet list.

Good topic …
Yeah 2 many tweets are not good ….
Good post

The genuine targeted content of interest is often overwhelmed by the chattering machine gun fire of rubbish. Perhaps we should be granted 3 Tweets a day and “use them wisely.”

Keen2learn

I have only 12 followers so far, and I like to tweet only when there’s something important to tweet about.

Tweeting about products does annoy most Tweeter readers and should be limited to your website. Isn’t that what websites are for?

Yes, tweeting every 10 seconds is also very annoying. If you want people to know what you had for dinner last night, why not send them a text message by phone instead of telling the whole uninterested Tweeter community about it.?

But if Christiano Ronaldo’s transfer to Real Madrid got the nod, by all means, tweet about it, man.

And tweet only once, and we’ll know you got the early worm. Tweet too much then you gonna drop dead with hunger after you drop the worm from your tweetie-ful tweeter.

Joined twitter last week and am still trying to figure it out – not sure waht all the hype is about

Yes I unfollow twitters with too many tweets. I hate to log in to my twitter account only to find out that all updates on the front page came from the same twitter.

Excessive twitters prevent readers from easily reading other twitter updates, their aim is to push other updates down so that only their tweets will be visible on the first page, preventing followers from reading other updates some of which may be more interesting than theirs.

Of course, you can click on the more button to view more tweets, but how many twitters will actually do that?

Excessive tweeting is like nagging. Nag too much and I stop listening (following).

I agree that some excessive tweeting (especially by those who tweet 90% or more links) is annoying and I will block anyone who tweets more than three continual tweets in a row. That’s really saying something, because I’m following over 10k users on Twitter, and if someone can get three in a row in that mess they’re really working hard to spam…or have an automation script of some kind.

I do have to say that when I first started tweeting I tweeted A LOT. I would tweet sometimes more than 40 times per day, and I got followers FAST. People loved all those updates, and no one ever complained. Now that I’ve slowed down a bit, my followers are dropping off too. I agree that there is a balance a person should try to achieve. Make sure that your tweets are genuine, that they are a representation of your real self and not hype, try not to tweet too many links, too many affiliate programs, or too many hashtag tweets. If you like a quote, I think it’s ok to tweet it, but if all your tweets are quotes, I’m unfollowing.

I also have children, and wanted to say that I block anyone with a sexy avatar, or tweets that are angry or swear. My kids are far more important than all you twitter folks!

My husband @dangerbrown is an affiliate marketer. He doesn’t tweet affiliate links, though. He tweets his earnings and how he makes money. Oddly, we’ve been shocked that he gets so many people saying that his tweets are refreshingly honest. He’s not afraid to tweet his losses or exact numbers of the days net loss/gains. Apparently, this is relatively unheard of in the industry. I think that this says something. Transparency, integrity…those things are lacking in social networking. People on the whole use these services to hide their true identity. To claim to be something they are not. When someone is perfectly honest and tells it like it is, it’s refreshing and wonderful. Try it!

I don’t unfollow people that tweet too much. I unfollow people that tweet too boring.

-RG

I don’t mind some mundane stuff, like “I just had pancakes” or something like that. But I just recently did unfollow one gal who tweeted, “The cat just peed on the couch next to me”. When it was followed 10 min later with a msg calling her mother an F’ing b$itch, that was enough. What a moron. She was a business professional too in my industry and you think she would have more class than that.

I don’t a few marketing msgs as longs as they don’t occur every 15 minutes from the same user. Like the one post above, there’s always that Block button.

I must have the patience of a saint.

I’m unfollowing someone now, because he tweets so much he slows down my browser and drowns out all those I follow in floods of stream-of-consciousness irrelevance.

360 tweets in 24 hours, I kid you not. Binge-tweeting; unfollowed.

S.