Meet The 5 People Who Will Ruin Twitter.

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The movie Avatar is about a planet of people attacked by a much stronger force.

They have to battle back, these underdogs, to protect their land.

If you’re reading this, you come from another planet too.

The devastatingly nerdy world of Twitter.

Don’t fight it.

Don’t fight it.

Embrace your nerdy body.

Your world is under attack too.

Today, I will show you the enemy.  The people that you’ll see on Twitter pumping their tiny fingers and expelling tweets that could soon signal the end-times.

And after months, maybe a year, if Twitter dies, you’ll know why.

You’ll circle back to this post and laud me for being right.

Nice.

I’ve always wanted to be like, totally lauded.

Let’s begin now, with the 5 people who completely ruin Twitter for the rest of us.

1. The People Behind Those Horrible Trending Topics.

Right for the juggernaut.

I know you feel uneasy.  Because you’ve thought about this, too.

You’re frightened, scared.  Let’s unpack your thoughts.

Don’t madden them, TN, they’ll make a hurtful trending topic about your penis!

That would be better than the shit that’s out there.

You know you ugly when.

Really?

Wifey her if.

Really.

Rihanna’s forehead is bigger than.

OK, that’s funny.

The point is, the hijacking of Twitter’s trending topics by asinine shit will destroy the validity Twitter has a mainstream news and information source.

And if you don’t believe me, there’s no way you’d be my wifey.

2. The Twitter Spambot.

The Twitter spambot is a reincarnation of the the Friendster webcam chick.

It’s the same person, people.

When I was on Friendster, striking out with chicks, I remember my first friend request.

Alicia in a super tiny bikini.

I immediately started dating her in my mind.

I added her.  Messaged her.  Introduced myself.

Hi Alicia!  I’m 23.  I like puzzles and juice boxes.  Maybe we can like totally do each other?

I put my emoticons out there.

Days later, a response.

Ur CUTE!  Do you want to see steamy pictures of me?  Join my private chat room, and receive five free minutes of me on webcam.

Shattered.

And more Alicias arrived.  Thousands and thousands.  Flooding Friendster until we all fled, flailing our girl arms in the air.

And now we’re on Twitter.

Alicia knows.  She’s here with all her super hot friends.  Selling us webcam sessions, teeth whitening, affiliate marketing scams.

When the Nigerian bankers find out how to give us inheritances in 140 chars or less, we’re all fucked.

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Dreaming of super hot spambots and a love that could not be.

3. The Vapid Celebrity.

I like celebrities on Twitter.  I follow a lot of them.

But the ones I don’t follow still manage to get into my stream.

Ha!

My stream.

And more will arrive.  More of the vapid celebrities with nothing to say.

The ones with “armies” of fans.  They’ll flood us with hundreds of their devastating thoughts.

omg people. I keep loosing my iphone.  arrgh.

on the set of a new photoshoot!  don’t worry.  gonna take pics for you guys.

hey tweeps!  at a VIP party just ran into puffy. lmaoz.   big things!!

What are we supposed to do with that?

4. The There’s-No-Such-Thing-As-Too-Much-Information People.

For these people, Twitter is like a psychiatrist, a close friend, and an STD doctor all in one.

They share everything.

And as Twitter grows, more of these people arrive.

My bum itches you guys!

I’m smoking crack and shit!

No offense but Canadian people are gross.

Thanks, people.

Thanks for that.

5. The Social Media Douchebag.

Our biggest threat.

Before Twitter, they roamed the world as social outcasts.

Unloved and unwanted.

Like me right-now.

And then Twitter gave them a chance to fashion a new persona for themselves.  Where people would listen to them.  Respect them. Pay them for their thoughts.

Hilarious.

But the thin veil of celebrity that they’ve tried to create will soon fall.

And we’ll all totally see their pee-pees and wee-wees.

The pee-pee of fraud, the wee-wee of bullshit.

Let’s hope it isn’t too late.

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Even though the social media douchebags have harpooned me with hurtful comments, I continue to fight them.

There you have it.

The 5 people who will ruin Twitter.

I know what you’re thinking.

Well you can just not follow them.

I know that.  And I don’t.  But just like Alicia in her tiny bikini.

They multiply.

And once they outnumber us all, nothing can stop their super hot web cam sessions.

Follow my super hotness on Twitter here.

Question: Who else annoys you on Twitter that I left out?





  • Edde
    Nice!
    and to some... don't feed the trolls!
  • totallyjaded
    Looks like you've pretty much covered everyone on Twitter, as well as most other social media Web sites.
  • ReaderX
    FAIL. If the stereotypes you call out (and you are, in fact, a part of them yourself), then Twitter would not exist. What a poorly considered list and pointless rant.

    "Durrh, if ppl xactly lyke me did n0t tweet, twitter would B better. Hur, hur."
  • suzanne
    I have thought all the things you wrote.
    But...there's no way to stop it that I can see besides the unfollow, block, etc. Some celebs do that "please twitter you want my show renewed" "please buy my book" etc.
    That's not what I want to read. Oh well.
    Great article.
  • DebsSweet
    I agree with most of your comments -- but I have to say that what really annoys me are people (like you for instance) who have thousands of followers but you don't give them the decency to follow them back. You might *really* like some of your followers! Then there are the companies who are selling things --- sure they want us to follow them and buy from them, but are they going to follow us back? Oh nooooo of course not. It doesn't take a brainiac to understand business and how to treat potential customers/buyers.
  • i am hurt with this and im gonna tell my twitter friends about it
  • semiattractive
    please, just ONE normal paragraph, for the love of g-d! :( i hate alicia too.
  • nice info.. (lol)
  • Funny stuff.
    Still think the unfollow, protected tweets and block button will prefent this from totally fucking twitter tho.
  • Gina / SuuperG
    How do you make it cool to be insulted by you?!? lol I'm sure I can fit into some kind of category that is trite! :P Rock on oh juice box slurping, basement-dwelling, purveyor of hilarious gems!
  • Paul
    Hilarious!
  • Social Media douche bags! LOL

    Many of them go by the tag of "Expert". Don't let them know that we know. Shhhh....It is more fun that way!

    LOVE IT!

    Harrison
  • The social media douchebags are the best -- I love that they tweet about social media, especially Twitter, to people who are already on Twitter.
  • Heather
    Just as an aside... I liked those tweets about twitter since I was new to twitter. They have outgrown their usefulness in some ways. In others, not so much... but it does seem funny to see it there.
  • Funny and very true post about the downfalls to any network. Email, Social Netowrking, IM they are out there everywhere. Maybe we should all just log off the computer and get back to the real world - oh wait they'll find a way to infiltrate that world too. :)
  • Like a razor to a baby seal - you cut right to the heart of the matter.
    Couldn't agree more.
  • I'm on this like white on rice, great article, sharing...Now!
  • Harrrrrrrrrrr Deeeeeeeeeeeee !!!!!!!
  • I really like to twitt this is the way to able to twitt the nice and interesting people.
  • I personally love twitter and I think some of us are finding great rewards various exchanges and discoveries we do every week. Where there's humans there's weird stuff happening! I choose to twitter love to the community hoping to inspire other kindred spirits!
  • This is a great social article; I share, I share...lol.
  • One word: Amazing! Great job on this and well worth a share :-)
  • Love the article. Spot on. But when you wrote "Right for the juggernaut" did you mean "Right for the jugular" or was that a joke that went over my head?
  • I heard a rumor that they are working feverishly on getting your dead uncle's bank account from Nigeria in under 140 characters. It will happen soon!
  • Please consider this my official proposal for your hand in marriage. We will sit by the fire and eat s'mores while making fun of social media douchebags every day.
    Love,
    @akaMonty
  • my wee wee is stinging. TMI?
    ps: your eye has the same intense look as neytiri's. keep fighting the just war.
  • FedUpTweeter
    The person who talks about ME! ME! ME! and retweets celebrities hoping they will be noticed and become their new BFF. Relentless fame-whoring will get you unfollowed by me.
  • There's a choice one who makes a big demonstration in a public tweet of unfollowing anyone who dares to unfollow. I mean, with names and all, and a big "unfollowing because they unfollowed" indictment. Tagged with #mrtoad for unclear reasons. A combination of 1, 3 & 5.
  • My new favorite post ! Exclamation mark !
  • You totally forgot to draw your package in the picture with Alicia. I hope she hasn't emasculated you.

    Oh, and "Luke" is obviously a SMD.
  • greenandchic
    So very true! I've been on Twitter for a little under two years and its interesting to see how it evolved.
  • Luke
    Just stumbled upon this, and your writing style is pretty irritating. You don't need a new line for every sentence, and you don't need to write the entire article in fragments. I don't use twitter, but I'm sure it's just as annoying as you make it out to be. So good article, just get someone else to write it for you.
  • Ela
    I think the writing style matching the limited-characters-twitter-thing was a very nice touch :)
  • social media douche bags are the worst. they appear to have 100,000 "friends" following them, no sorry people, these are not your friends. they are 999,999 other spam bots and social media douchebags, douche-bagging one another in a cesspool of douchebaggery
  • Dan
    I'd add "The Jonas Brothers". Someone say's Twitter has a greater population of mature people than other forms of social networks but somehow pubescent girls still seem to push The Jonas Brothers into trending almost to the point of topic spam. Maybe I should re-think this as "pubescent girls" will ruin Twitter.
  • mommiedaze
    Hilarious and so true. I hope there aren't any Nigerian bankers reading, because you just gave them a great idea.
  • Haha, like it, glad I don't see myself in there.
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