Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

If you’ve ever been the victim of an unfollow on Twitter, you may just fit the profile of an obnoxious tweeter. The following infographic, created by Israel-based company Conduit, details 11 of the tech industry’s most annoying Twitter users.

 

Some examples of feed-cloggers include “The Eventaholic,” who tweets about every pseudo-interesting person he meets at every single gathering he attends, and “The Social Media Butterfly,” who constantly provides updates in a bid to gain more followers....

Ever since Will Rogers stood on a stage with an open newspaper, comedy has evolved and adapted to technological change.

..."In the end though," says Baze "I think what makes a good tweet is the same thing that makes a good joke, which is getting at a fundamental truth of some kind in a clever or interesting way."

Kutner adds that, unlike monologues, the ideal personal tweets are typically one-liners, and there’s less riding on them.

"In terms of content," says Kutner, "I feel way more liberty to get political, obscure, or purely attitudinal with a tweet. You kind of never know who will respond to what, so anything’s game. And more to the point, there’s no chance of a silent audience on Twitter if it goes flat, so you can take more risks.