Most likely if you are reading this, you are on Twitter. Maybe you’ve seen these things. Maybe it annoys you. Maybe you do it and you irritate the snot out of me.
These are my pet peeves. It doesn’t mean that you should quit doing what you do; your online world is your own, you do what you want. However, these will likely earn an unfollow from me (if you care), and I’m fairly certain that I’m not the only one with these pet peeves.

1. Song tweeting sites: The biggest offender is blip.fm. I’m an old-school chat junkie (Heard of IRC?), and one of the big netiquette issues was “now playing” scripts. You’d get banned over it. I don’t care what you’re listening to. Post one or two, no problem. Post a bunch and I’m unfollowing. And for the record: Clicking a link in blip.fm’s song database does not make you an Internet DJ. Get a real Shoutcast stream if that’s what you want to do.
2. Only being on Twitter to tweet your other posts. If the only reason you’re on Twitter is to belch out your blog feeds or to repost from Plurk, don’t bother. In order to be SOCIAL on a social networking site, you need to interact.
3. People who never respond. This especially includes you, celebs. You can’t have a one-sided conversation. See above. Interact with your followers.
4. Serial retweets. If I look at your profile and all I see is a string of RT’s, you’re not getting followed. Create your own content. If I wanted to see that other crap I’d follow those other people.
5. Only posting links. I *very* rarely open links in Twitter. Again, create your own content.
6. Spymaster. Yeah, you know who you are. Keep the games on Facebook.
7. Bloggers that insist you read their blog by re-posting the same content repeatedly.
8. Not replying properly. Example:
   You: @Me Omg I absolutely love that movie!
   Me: @You Yeah, I saw it last night, it was pretty good.
   You: I especially love the special effects! @Me @You Yeah, I saw it last night, it was pretty good.
   ARGH! Proper response:
   You: @Me I especially love the special effects!
   You don’t have to put your reply aimed directly at me in your entire stream. It’s irritating when I’m seeing half of a conversation with people that are doing this repeatedly. If I wanted to see your A & B conversation, I’d follow the both of you. And it’s very confusing (and irritating) to have whatever inane thing I said spouted back to me.
9. Thinking that I’m your personal marketing audience. I’m not going to go to your place of business or buy your stuff. I’m here for the social networking. If I wanted ads, I’d go to Facebook. Oh no wait, I have those blocked. Oh hmm… There’s an idea!
10. Taking “What are you doing?” literally:
    Just rolled out of bed.
    Having coffee.
    Finished with coffee, it’s going right through me! Need to take a leak.
11. Interactive TV watching. If I wanted to know what was going on on the stupid show or sporting event I’d look at it myself. I loathe TV. I detest sports. I don’t watch it, I don’t want to see it.
12. #Hashtag #abuse. #You #know #what #I’m #talking #about.
13. People who use Twitter as a chat client. Go to a chat room if you want to chat, don’t fill up my stream with your #hashtag conversations. One or two on occasion is fine, but don’t flood me. Yes, I can filter them. Am I going to? Sure, by unfollowing.
14. People who use SMS-shorthand when it’s not needed. R u goin 2 the show 2nite? Really, you can spell out the words. Only use the shorthand when you’re running out of characters. We’re not teenagers texting back and forth.
15. ASCII “art” floods. Not much of this, but it is annoying.
    <º))))><.·´¯`·.Have a great day!¸.·´¯`·.¸><((((º>
    ASCII was cool 10 years ago. Not now.
16. Social media “experts”/”gurus”/etc. Want to know what these people do? They market on Twitter and Facebook. They might blog. Congrats, you’re now a social media expert!
17. iPhone worshipers:
    Whoops, iPhone’s keyboard = typing fail!
    Just got a new app for my iPhone, it rocks!
    Reading Kindle on my iPhone during my lunch break.
    Heading out for a while, will be on my iPhone.
    My iPhone has such crappy battery life!
    Srsly. Does your entire life revolve around your bloody iPhone? You don’t see non-iPhone users squawking about their phone:
    Listening to Pandora on my HTC.
    I wish I had a full keyboard on my HTC.
    Just took a cool pic on my HTC.
    We’re not impressed.
18. People who don’t use a Twitter application. You miss replies and DM’s. You have to reload the page. Seriously, get an app.
19. GET 5000 FOLLOWERS A DAY! Yeah. They don’t work. They just infect your Twitter stream like a virus, and any followers you get are bots anyway.

Honestly, 100% of my tweeps rock my world and I love to see what’s going on with them. But these… quirks, for lack of a better word, drive me INSANE!!!

Perhaps I’ll add more to this list as people irritate me further. Let’s just keep Twitter a nice, clean social media network.