fseek.me

If you use Twitter, you probably have a list of things that you hate about it. However, what annoys me the most is not the platform itself (as bad as it it), but the way some people use it.

If you do any of those things you should be forever BANNED from using Twitter:

• You use “Tweeple” to refer to people on Twitter. Something like “hi Tweeple” is banned. In fact, if you modify any word to be Twitter specific, you should shoot yourself. The only exception is “tweet” for the single messages itself.
• Your break down your message into 2 or more tweets. Twitter has a 140 chars limitation and if you can’t summarize your thoughts with this limitation, do not break it down on multiple tweets. Write about it on a blog and link to it.
• You say “good morning” before your post your first tweet and “good night” before going to sleep. Seriously? Do I even have to explain why you shouldn’t do it?
• You “Follow Friday” a lot of people without any explanation. I hate, really hate when I see 10 tweets from someone on a Friday full of @names and a #FF at the end. Why should I follow them? Choose one or two and be specific why they are good.
• Your description has the words “SEO” , “Expert”, “Social Media” and “Marketing”.
• You beg for people to RT your posts. If they liked it, they will RT your content. Don’t even bother asking for it.

 
 
 
Did I miss anything on this list? What else should be banned? Let me know and I will update this post.

 
I broke all the rules today. Check it out:

I don’t know how I missed it for so long, but http://backtweets.com is really awesome.

Why is it awesome? One of the biggest drawbacks of having short urls on twitter is that you can’t search for tweets referencing your domain. And just this week I was trying to see who mentioned this site on twitter, when I found their service. Very simple concept and very well done (note that this is not a paid post, I just really liked it).

This is the output when I searched for fseek.me:

One problem that I noticed is that some links were missing, but very few of them. I guess they monitor the twitter stream (for everyone), so missing a few tweets is expected.