A recent post by The Bloggess caught my attention: “25 things about twitter that are pissing me off.”

I can’t say that I agree with every item on her list but I can definitely relate to a few.

People who are making me her us mad:

“People who have their twitter account marked private because they don’t want people to read it. YOU ARE ON THE INTERNET.  Also, what you’re drinking at Starbucks is not national security.  It makes me want to create a page for my cat and make it private because it’s that stupid.”

Now, there are people who use Twitter to communicate with a select group of people or do not want the world to know that they hate their boss / the company they work for / the product they sell / their wife etc. While it’s good not to broadcast these things I wonder if the locked account people know that people who are allowed to follow them can and do retweet their stuff and broadcast it to the world for them. (Oops. You didn’t think of that, did you.)

“People who I’m really good friends with on twitter but they never post anything to let me know if they are a girl or a boy and their picture is of a dolphin or a rainbow and I want to talk about them to my husband and I’m all “Oh, one of my best friends on twitter is hilarious and you would love him or her” and then Victor’s all “You don’t know the sex of one of your best friends?” and I’m all ” Well…their picture is a dolphin” and he just shakes his head.”

Seriously. Please. Are you a human or are you a picture of a goat.

“People who aren’t on twitter and think they’re better than me, because I was you a year ago and guess what?  I had a lot more spare time then.  But now I have 11,000 friends.  And only half of them are robots.  The other half are dolphins.”

And you know exactly who these people are because they refer to the act of using twitter as “twittering.”

“People who ask questions that no one cares the answer to.  Like, bad question:  “Hey everybody!  What’s your favorite color?”  Good question: “How many lemurs could you fight off if the lemurs were really mad and you were wearing a suit made out of meat?”

Other bad questions: “does anybody want to buy my ebook?” and “how do you work this twitter thing?”

“People who answer that question “I <3 lemurs!!!  They R QT’s!!!”  Just stop it.  You don’t get to use twitter anymore.”

Twitter is not AOL and this is not 1995.

“Robots.”

Obviously.

“People who ask me to follow them over and over except I’m already following them but I can’t DM them that because they aren’t following me.”

This one’s on my Top 10 Most Annoying Things in Life list.

“Practically everyone who has an auto-response set up to welcome followers.  I don’t need you to tell me I’m following you.  I just followed you.  Also, you only have 16 followers.  Just how busy are you?

Exactly. Also, I have yet to see an auto-response that made me think “Well isn’t that a good idea!”

“People under age 16 on twitter. No. Just look what you did to Myspace.”

Two words. PARENTAL CONTROLS.

**Stephanie comes to us from Atlanta, GA.  To vote for Stephanie’s post, please leave a comment below.  Don’t forget to visit her website, www.radiantveracity.com.

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