Are You Annoyed By Retweets?

You can follow a person and block their retweets.

 

I honestly signed up for Twitter five days ago. It took me about three days to get tired of retweets because of one individual. He's a writer at another paper that I followed for scoring updates which was good. But he retweets EVERYTHING it seems like. As Evil pointed out, if I cared what the the King of Swaziland had to say, I'd follow him on my own.

I'm also rapidly sick of useless tweets from people. You don't have to congratulate Josh Hamilton. He doesn't follow you.

 

I think I am annoyed by all things Twitter.
I signed up a few weeks ago and I find the whole thing pretty annoying and meaningless.

I wanted to use my account to report breaking news. I follow a lot of reporters and news sites. I don't really feel like I am gaining anything useful.

 

If you find the right mix of those to follow Twitter can be a very enjoyable source of information. You have to be quick with the delete button to cut out those that wastes your time.

I dumped Jay Glazer pretty quickly because of his endless MMA promotions.

I like following Keith Olberman because it's fun to tweak him. He must read everything because he actually responds.

I like Twitter best when I'm standing in a line somewhere. It's a good quick read to pass the time.

 

I feel the same way.

I stopped following many of the guys who cover the Blue Jays because they were all Tweeting the same thing at the same time: the lineup the minute it goes up, the most minute thing Farrell says in his pregame ("Farrell says Johnson will continue to leadoff"), anything remotely interesting that happens in the game etc.. But there was little in the way of solid news or stuff I couldn't get elsewhere.

 

There's too much live Tweeting going on, Huggy. Too many empty quotes. The problem is, one person on the beat does it, and the rest of the people feel like they have to do it the same way to keep up. Hate it. I hate Tweeting quotes anyway because of the limited space and how it takes away any sense of context. These things aren't said in a vacuum.

 

Someone should relay this advice to doodah.

 

I stopped following obsessive re-tweeters and those who live blog. Posting lineups is pushing it.

 

You follow Doodah?

 

Rovell acts like he invented twitter. I got sick of incessant tweets about what he was eating.

 

Yep. His posts here weren't an act. He does the same shtick on Twitter.

 

Really? Lineup tweets are something I look for the most. From my days covering baseball, I think there is a huge fan interest in lineups.