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Twitter's Most Obnoxious Tweets Lampooned at TweetingTooHard.com

by Tom Samiljan on May 20, 2009 at 06:03 AM



It's been said, by experts and such, that Facebook and Twitter members who update their statuses and tweet too frequently are essentially narcissists. This may be true, but we'd be willing to bet that the narcissists on social networks are far outnumbered by the pompous jackasses.

Yes, there are plenty of useful ways to "Twitter," but the vast majority of tweets are either boring or boastful, which is why we're digging TweetingTooHard, a new site that lets you submit (and gawk over) offensive, annoying, or particularly self-important tweets.


You can share any of these obnoxious tweets with your friends, as well give a 'Back Pat' (essentially, a Digg-like vote) to the ones you find particularly annoying.

But don't listen to us go on and on about it -- check out some of these tweeting tools, in their own 140-character words:

"it makes me sad, the more i have success the more people don't like me...." (@iamsammis)

"I make multi-million $ decisions on a regular basis -- why is it soooo difficult to decide what to do with my hair?" (@MKReflections, whose picture is eerily reminiscent of a 'Hart-to-Hart--era Stephanie Powers)

"If I accepted every invitation to speak I've gotten lately, I'd never have any time to do anything worth talking about." (@al3x)

"All of you who've started following me in the last week: Why don't you just unfollow me. I'm not interested in following random strangers.#" (@bendelaney)

"ok poop is coming out." (@leto75)

"I'm now the number one google result for guru/douchebag :) " (@plesko)

We couldn't have said it better ourselves. Seen any particularly self-important tweets lately? If so, then get thee to TweetingTooHard for some serious submitting and back-patting. [Thanks, Adam]

Tags: funny, microblogging, top, tweetingtoohard, tweets, twitter

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