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Ask HN: What sort of tweets annoy you?

7 points by thomasswift ↗ HN
I am working on a tool to analyze twitter followers tweets and give some statistics to decide if they should be unfollowed.

Here is a short list of things that I am thinking of including.

  Percentage of Retweets (things like RT, PLS RT etc.)
  Time span of tweets (too often, too fast)
  Duplicate Links to same sites 
  #followfriday people
Twitter is many things to many different people, but what annoys you about some your followers that you would want to filter and see?

If you'd like to keep it private, my address is in my profile.

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knieveltech
Irritating: - inane tweets: I dont care what you had for lunch

- tweeting constantly: I don't want to scroll down to get through your most recent thicket of tweets.

- Constant retweeting: If you don't have anything of your own worth tweeting why are you on twitter?

- stupid #tweets (contests, followfriday, etc)

aberman
3,000 #moonfruit tweets in a row.

Tweets about how many followers you have (i.e. just reached 8,000 followers)

thomasswift
YES! are the #spymaster ones done yet, haven't seen that many floating around
tdavis
I'd say about 95% of the tweets I receive annoy me. Anything automated (I just did X at Y.com), location information (I don't give a fuck where you are right now), requests for RT, unnecessary high volume from a specific user...

Basically, unless you're tweeting something hilarious, an incredibly important piece of information about your life, or something you think your followers could be interested in (good article, certain photos, etc.) then I'm annoyed. I wouldn't even follow myself, given the opportunity.

Jem
#moonfruit, #spymaster, #yetanotherbloodycontest

Carrying out an entire conversation - a few tweets back and forth is fine but when you're racking up 30-40 in a row it's irritating.

satyajit
I once had David Pogue on my twitter, becuase I reallly loved his talk at EG conference. But took him off in about 2 weeks. I just hated his rate of tweets. It wasn't all that inane tweets (lunch dinner)... but c'mon.. go easy man!
lastkarrde
People who tweet what they eat. I don't mind the occasional 'those berries were nice' but some people go over the top. The exception to this rule is if they post a picture (twitpic) with it. You could analyze "eat", "lunch", "dinner" keywords.

People who RT everything someone says. For example I follow several web designers and programmers as well as Nettuts. Nettuts just RTs everything the other people tweet. Very annoying.

As other people have mentioned #moonfruit and #squarespace. Very annoying when they do it every single day. (Mayby analyse frequent hashtags in a certain period of time?)

jdowdell
Some of above Twitter problems bum me out too. But a different problem is a tweet you can't figure out on its own -- where you have to click a hidden link, or pull up someone else's conversation to figure out what the first message is saying. Before hitting "send", please read it back, see if it might make sense to other people too.
swellular
1 Too many tweets 2 Tweets that are too salesy 3 Tweets about "the twittersphere," "twitterans," and "OMFG you tweeple are soo amazing"