I have a lot of Twitter rules. I never swear on Twitter, and if anybody's inappropriate, I block them. I have young followers.
I wasn't always a Twitter devotee. During the 2012 campaign, the first during which Twitter was widely used by journalists and campaign aides, I became something of a scold to younger reporters who I thought misused the medium.
Twitter is definitely not the place to handle business per se.
The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that they are no longer following me and why.
On Twitter, when someone would die, I would write a joke. Or if there's a tragedy, I would write a joke and tweet it. That was my thing, and then at a certain point, people started demanding it.
No one cares what you ate for breakfast. Unless it's something really spectacular, don't tweet me your breakfast, I don't care.
People barely have anything to say in 140 characters. The last thing we need is a bunch of discursive rambling on Twitter.
Why do I have to follow CNN on Twitter? If I want to follow CNN, I can follow them on CNN.
There's this whole new grammar Twitter skill set that I do not possess. I'm not a very good person to follow. I never tweet, and when I do, it's about some sort of sporting event that I'm watching.
Even though I knew my way around Facebook, Twitter terrified me. RT? OH? Hootsuite? Huh? My Twitter-savvy friends attempted to explain what a hashtag was, but, still mystified, I signed up for an online Twitter 101 class. Yes. I'm geeky like that.
Some people are sass monsters on twitter. Like honey, you need to chill.
It's almost better that Twitter limits me to 140 characters. There's only so much trouble I can get in.
