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If not, there should be. Let’s start one.

1) if you can’t say it under 140 char­ac­ters, DON’T FUCKING SAY IT. No more four tweet sto­ries. It’s annoying.

2) @replies are good three times only. after that, head to the DMs

3) the excep­tion to #2 is when 4 or more peo­ple are involved. it could lead to some seri­ously cool thinking.

4) we don’t ALWAYS need to know WHAT you’re doing. I think it’s time we look past the lit­eral translation.

5) text short­cuts are okay, but think about it. Do we really need OMG or LOL? Let us decide.

6) busi­nesses, stop tweet­ing links only. i get that you’re try­ing to adver­tise, but that’s not what twit­ter is about. invit­ing me to your forum still counts as a link.

7) as an addi­tion to #6, please stop feed­ing com­ments into twit­ter. we don’t need to know when some­one com­mented on the blog post you just tweeted the url to six times in the last 10 minutes.

get a real avatar, be it your per­sonal logo or a pic­ture. enough with the manga, enough with the point­less pic­tures or cor­po­rate sym­bols. Be you.

9) use your REAL NAME. stop hid­ing behind an anony­mous sound­ing screen name.

Any thing else?

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• Celebs & Twit­ter A-Listers don’t give a shit about you

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