Last week I asked on Twitter what kind of tweets are annoying readers. I recapped the responses (in Finnsh) into the seven deadly sins.
1) Platitudes and old stories
2) Bursts of robo-tweets
3) Facebook links
4) One-to-one discussions in public
5) “Chatting with” celebrities
6) Links to articles behind paywalls
7) Cryptic tweets
Twitter offers space for a wide range of actors and communication styles. There’s not much need for an official moderator or extensive guidelines, and I’m not trying to raise the threshold for participating. I do think it’s worth looking at how people communicate, and these annoyances from my survey simply point out some of Twitter’s irksome patterns. Later I will highlight some of the best kinds of tweets, which a couple of studies have already examined.