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This is probably only me... I hate the "thanks for following tweets." They probably do it to be polite. Here's one that got unfollowed because of "You can check out my real estate blog at "http://blahblahbla.net" Gee if I wanted to check out your real estate blog I could certainly find it.... and not all Thanks for the Follow Tweets are bad... a personal note from someone I know would never offend me. Or even one from most strangers. I found this DM (direct message) from a total stranger particularly conversational:
broadcasting tweets to get us to their sites...
me off. Again look at their ratio, following a lot more than are following them. Not as bad as some. Maybe I need to get over this. Not following this one (or most) but being folllowed by a few. 
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20 Comments on Ten Twitter Turn Offs
I'm with you I don't like the spam DM's about their website, etc. Turns me off! KM
Great insight. I'm new to Twitter and still getting used to it. But your point #1 is very insightful. Thanks!
PS, you can read by twits @upyourbiz (haha...yes, trying to be funny)
I don't care for the robo follow ups. They tricked me at first and I felt guilty about not responding to them. Now I ignore. I don't care for the nasty politics, particularly from people in the network. It's over so get on with life! Creepy ones that only follow women get blocked.
For the most part I really love twitter. Yesterday using Twitter helped me find someone who told me how to fix a WordPress blog I nuked.
kk
Seems like the more folks that start twittering the less I follow. I always check out the ratios and if they are upside down, then I don't follow. I do follow local news services but they dont do the feed thing like your photo. I get lots of hot updates quickly on breaking news.
Hi Maureen. I didn't know about the do's and don'ts. I am just trying to figure out twitter.
Thanks for the heads up.
Ken
Kristal I don't know if I know what a robo follow up is...
thanks all for the comments
Ken these are not really do's and don'ts... Twitter is very personal... what I hate may be wonderful for others... we pretty much know spam when we see it and no one seems to like spam anywhere much...
Lots of people love politics. Most of my pals seem to dislike it. I asked the question during the height of the political brouhaha. Not sure some would even remember it now.
I did not mind most of the politics. The real hateful stuff got to me.
I love Twitter but recently unfollowed a few folks due to
1. Profanity...really bad stuff
2. Political rants ( keep it yourself..Please!)
3. No profile (I want to know who you are)
Maureen, I'm sorry I missed this question. The spam thing is just so high on my list...it could be issue 1 to 5 actually. Interesting that you hate the "thanks for following..." I usually try to say something when I do it but maybe it still would bother people.
What about chatter? I sometimes think I chatter (yes, chat) too much on twitter and may loose followers...but its hard not to do so. Oh well. I bet the chatter bugs some people.
I am rearely on twitter but I have now gotten a couple of good leads from it. Not really sure why and I do not totally get it.
It seems that a turn-off would be 1. profanity and 2. self promotion...
I am not up to speed on Twitter. I've put in some info but no real posting yet. However, I keep getting emails from people "following me." Why I wonder . . . ~ Evelyn
It sounds as if there's a lot I don't know about Twitter. After the move and I have more time I'll try to get into it.
Maureen - well you certainly covered a bunch of aggravations of Twitter. I am fairly new so still getting used to the whole thing. The thank you for following does not trouble me...yet. I do find it interesting to look at the ratio of followers to following, and even more when you look at their corresponsing updates. Say one recently with several thousand followings, a handful of followers, and a couple of updates. Hmmm. Not MY follower.
I often wonder why some folks choose to follow me. Sometiimes it makes no sense (are they just following anyone? trying to drum up followers?) and I do not return the favor. The self promotion is hard to take. I follow a number of news sites - the sheer number of posts can be rather aggravating and I certainly do not have the time to look at them all. A few I had stopped following.
Jeff
Hi Maureen -- nice list. Thought you and your readers might like to see this post, too. Twitter red and yellow card violations. Good stuff:
http://tangerinetoad.blogspot.com/2008/07/social-media-cards.html
Monika I don't see a lot of profanity on Twitter. do you. The no profile thing is very valid. I never thought much about it.
Karen I am not a big chat person. Never have been. Other people chatting on Twitter does not bother me.
When AR was new and people would ruin good meaningful threads (often overnight ) chatting back and forth in the comments that disturbed me...LOL back and forth.
Do you use Qwitter?
Charles I don't see much profanity on Twitter, do you? I see lots of self promotion. I may have been guilty of too much Twitterfeed early on. I am sure I was. I set it up on three blogs and seldom visited Twitter.
Evelyn I was really freaked when someone local started following me summer of 2007? Fall of 2007? When I wrote about "being followed." That's when I wrote Can you Twitter if you are paranoid? Turned out to be someone in the media in Columbus and someone who is very involved in the emerging social media in our market.
Vickie It took me forever to get into it. I like it now but don't spend much time on it.
Jeff I don't try to catch up or follow all someone has said. If I am not at the party, meeting, etc I am not going to hear what was said. For me it is the same with Twitter, I can use Twitter search if something really intrigues me but mostly I just look when I can.
I had some automotive tweeting thing out of some other part of the country following me... Cars? I wondered why. After awhile I followed and got a big old spammy thanks for following me with a link. Usually when I wonder I follow and find out via DM or a public "thank you" that is not conversational just a blast of marketing.
I was swarmed by coupon tweeters last week.
Irene The red card, yellow card thing is really rather good.. thanks
Yellow card for
They can be amusing occasionally .... but a steady
Guess I will have to eventually sign up to Twitter or Tweeter, then I am sure that I will have plenty of turn-offs. Hate Tagged...because it keeps telling me that someone is waiting for me when I go online...have you tried that one yet? My client introduced me to it. Take care.
Oh oh. Just noticed Paul Chaney has the second in a series of AR posts about using Twitter for business and he says:
"Thank others for following you. It's a matter of common courtesy and an evidence of respect."
Now I may have to rethink HOW to thank people and not unsubscribe when people thank me and send me a link to their site... Paul Chaney is an expert on conversational blogging.
Never heard of Tagged Michael. I kept getting thing that people were following me on Utterli and I was sure I had never joined... ignored them for months.
Sounds a little too complicated for little ol' me, so I'll just keep playing in the Rain, which has been very good to me.
Maureen - I don't mind if people thank me for following as long as they don't promote themselves at the same time. I also do not follow poople who are following a lot of people with no followers.
I still am not able to make myself do the polite thing and thank people for following me... but since reading it I am trying NOT to be so judgemental about the "thanks" tweets.