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How to lose me as your Twitter follower

Dayna — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:49:12 +0000

I have been thinking of unfollowing some people on Twitter but I haven’t got the time to filter through the list of people I’m following. I have to say I rarely ever unfollow someone on Twitter unless they are outright spammers. However, some people are really getting on my nerves these days and here’s why:

Twitter is not your MSN

Twitter is not another variation of MSN and I hope some people will stop treating it like one. I do not mind discussions, meaningful or random conversations but just not the ones like the above. I see those every single day on my timeline from the same group of people. If they wish to ask “How are you?” to the same person every day, please add him or her on MSN instead of flooding my timeline with their tweets.

I do not understand why it is necessary to reply to nearly every single tweet on their timeline with replies like Wow, I see or just a smiley face. Sorry but I’ve to say that it’s extremely annoying. If they do not have any constructive comments or additional things to add on or reply to, please do not reply then. Personally I feel that this is a lot more irritating than advertising tweets, at least most tweet ads do not fill up my entire timeline all at one time.

Try not to flood me with contest tweets at one shot

All the genuine tweets are being buried by theirs. I did not even have time to read through the latest tweets on my list before everything is pushed off by the “ABC company is giving away …” tweets. Occasional contest tweets are totally fine with me. The sad thing is, some people prefer to tweet the maximum number of entries allowed in a contest at one go just in case they forgot to do it later. If the contest has a limit of 20 entries per day, they will tweet 20 times all at once. How about an entry per hour instead? There is not much I can do besides unfollowing the person. I used to filter out the hashtag for some contest with Destroy Twitter but I would have to add a new hashtag everytime such a contest starts.

Formspring tweets can be too much sometimes

In case there are people who aren’t aware of what Formspring is, it’s a website that enables you to set up a page to allow people to ask you questions, sort of like an FAQ page.

Most people turned on the feature of sending answered questions to their Twitter account. It’s not a problem until they start answering 10 to 20 questions at a time. It’s the same logic as the contest tweets. Let’s be frank, it is logical for them to answer all the questions when they login. I would do the same too but do they have to linked their account to Twitter? Couldn’t they picked and just tweet the most important or interesting question for the day manually? Some of their followers like me won’t be interested in reading all the questions and answers but rather just the interesting ones. Some may feel that 8 tweets isn’t a large number but if 5 persons are doing it, there will be about 40 Formspring tweets on my timeline out of 100 recent tweets for example.

So, that’s my list. What about yours?

Twitpic of an even busier week

Dayna — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:34:36 +0000

To convince myself that I’m still hardworking, I decided to continue the “twitpic of the week” posts. I will be posting a photo collage of what I’ve done over the past week to fill up the “empty days” I didn’t blog about previously. My half mocks will start on 30 November thus I’m trying my best not to procrastinate and start reading the huge pile of notes. I’ve accumulated quite a substantial amount of reading which means I’ll basically be staring at my notes for the next few weeks.

On a very random note, I’ve officially broke my first mug in the bathroom today. I am usually very careful when handling glass but I’m such a blockhead this morning. If you haven’t notice, I’ve also increased the font size on Amour Chaleur because my vision is getting from bad to worse. Bigger text makes reading easier for me and hopefully for you as well.

Anyway, I was a happy user of Snaptu till the application decided to disappear from my INQ mini yesterday. No matter how many times I’ve tried, it refuses to reinstall so I switched to Twim now. I’m going to pray hard it continues to work until I get my iphone (hopefully) next year. Speaking of which my LG Viewty is still alive but I’ve neglected it. It’s sitting quietly in one of my drawers now. I might switch back to my Viewty next month because as much as I dislike touch screen phones, I still missed it.

Twitpic of my busy week

Dayna — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:50:59 +0000

I have almost forgotten to post my twitpic photos from last week. I had an extremely busy week and wasn’t online most of the time. Anyway, here’s a short recount of what happened last week. I received lots of goodies in the mail and am absolutely in love with my new cosmetics products from koreabb.com.sg. I found a new online shop, Beauty Carousel in Singapore selling lots of Japanese cosmetics. It’s so tempted to try some of the highlighting and oil control powder but I’m trying to put myself on a shopping ban to save up for Christmas.

Twitpic of the week

I also went Haw Par Villa & Vivo City with mum. We went on board the MV Doulos. I found a Chinese craft book with lots of pandas artwork at PageOne and I took a few photos of them. I was so afraid the loud shutter sound of my mobile will alert the staff on duty. Anyway, the pandas were so adorable!

Some day later, Chewy and I went shopping at Orchard. I brought my panda and pooh bears to guard the car again. Notice the claypot rice with abalone? We had dinner at Ah Yat Tian Xia Restaurant at Orchard Central. The abalone cost an additional SGD 7 and taste okay, for the price I can’t complain of course. Chewy had pork chop rice and he finds it delicious. I tried it and it’s also so-so in my opinion.

The rest of the week was spend on spring cleaning my room, playing bridge at home and having dim sum at Ah Yat Seafood Restaurant. I still think the dim sum from Imperial is better. So, that’s how I spend my entire week. How about yours?

Ultimate Blog Awards

By the way, Tiff’s holding her first contest, Ultimate Blog Awards at JynxedPanda. There are lots of attractive prizes, such as WordPress themes, illustrations, t-shirts and even cash to be won. There are also many mini contests for all her readers. She is also trying to raise donations for the victims of Typhoon Ondoy amd Pepeng via the contest. It’s an all rounded contest for everyone so please join in the fun and head over to her website for more details.

The voting for the Site Glamour Contest will close on 30 October instead of November because I hope the contest will be focused on the discussion of the articles instead of the voting next month. Please vote for the website which you think deserves the award and don’t forget to participate in the contest article discussion next month.

Twitpic of the week

Dayna — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:30:17 +0000

I decided to start “twitpic of the week” posts with a photo collage as a summary for all the photos I’ve tweeted in a week. I’ll try my best to post every week. Since I’ve tried Terry’s Photo Collage’s tutorial, I’m addicted to making photo collages now. So, we brought our little Porky out last weekend. No, I wasn’t hugging him at Vivo City but he stayed back to guard the car.

Twitpic of the week

Tweet tweet tweet!

Dayna — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:39:37 +0000

Tweet~ Do you love Twitter? I’ve seen many people integrating Twitter into their WordPress blogs recently. Missy has also just started using it. If you have noticed, the mini snippets has been replaced by mini tweets. Before I started using it, I have been thinking why almost everyone is using it. Now I know… I think it’s really fun updating it as and when I like. I can post about what I’m currently doing, the weather, small rants and just random stuff that wouldn’t be enough to fit into a single post. I can follow the updates and happenings of a friend through it as well. And it’s very addictive!

Once you start, you will be hook!

Does that sounds familiar? Anyway, I love to interact and make friends with new people. So if you are using it, feel free to add me as a friend. Oh and the little blur¹ (I mean blue, it was an honest mistake) bird to your left was drawn when yours truly was daydreaming in class. It was coloured in Photoshop though. Lazy me, I should get a new set of colour pencils soon! I converted a section of my portfolio for my random drawings as well.

It is a confused, muddle-headed bird with a tiny brain but irresistibly adorable.