5 Ways Your Twitter Picture Will Keep Me from Following You
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Call me crazy, but your Twitter icon can and WILL keep me from following you on Twitter. Below are my top 5 gripes about Twitter images and why they'll drive me, and probably many others, away.
- If you have the ugly brown default icon that Twitter uses as a placeholder, I won't follow you. If you use this it makes me think you're not active and I like to follow active people.
- If your Twitter icon is a mini advertisement for your MLM or Dating Service conpany, I will not follow. This just screams that you'll be trying to sell me something at some point and that your primary motivation for being on Twitter is to make money. Pass.
- If your Twitter icon is flipping me the bird I probably will not follow you. I get enough of that when I drive my car, I don't really want it in my twitter client. It's not cute, it's actually pretty stupid and immature. FYI
- If your Twitter icon makes you look angry or like a douchebag, I will not follow you. I'm not in this for negative vibes, baby.
- If your twitter picture is of nude or risque body parts, male or female, I'll definitely pass. I suppose there's a place for that on the internet for certain people... Twitter is not that place in my opinion.
- BONUS GRIPE: Animated Twitter icons may seem like a cool and hip thing, but they get old very quickly and I really don't want to keep being distracted by your dancing banana when I'm trying to read tweets around you. Don't try to steal attention away from others. Tweet awesome tweets and you won't have to resort to such lame tactics.
There, I said it. It feels good to get that off my chest. Do you have a nice & respectable Twitter avatar? I'm @Fitzillo on Twitter. Follow me here and I'll be sure to return the favor! :-)
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I can totally understand your dislike for these! However, I have not yet encountered an animated avatar, :S. Yes, that would definitely be annoying.
Hi @Fitzillo, hope you don’t unfollow when seeing my avatar.
Hey Melinda, thanks for the comment. Check out @2009MardiGras for an example of a semi-annoying animated twitter avatar.
Why would I? Your avatar rocks! :-)
BULLSEYE!
You just wrote what I have been thinking for the last three weeks while making my way around twitter.
Love the blog and the cartoons.
Ditto, I do not follow anyone unless they have an honest,
decent picture as their icon.
My first two exceptions are you and Melinda Stanley.
Love your caricatures.
@IrisandME
You are the first person I followed on Twitter. I am very new to Twittering but I completely agree. Funny but true.
I’ll pass the whole twitter thing. thanx.
I must disagree ONLY in that I have tried EVERYTHING under the sun to get a picture to show up. I have even tried to “borrow” other people’s pictures that work and even THAT does not work. I have made pictures the size that they MUST be under 700k. I have tried putting other websites into my SAFE incase my security is too high. So I would encourage you NOT to ALWAYS infer that the BROWN ugly icon is there because a person is lazy.
I totally agree with all of these!! The brown owl of laziness (default) is like putting make up on in the car while you drive, brushing your teeth or shaving–It says you are not ready to greet the world. Get ready and set and then FOLLOW! The half naked people make me angry–GET DRESSED ALREADY! Thanks for letting me vent too! @Ginaschreck
I don’t follow people who have no @ replies or RTs, because it’s clear that they’re not on Twitter to be in a conversation, rather, they’re just promoting themselves.