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Anyone else getting sick of seeing "you should follow me on Twitter" everywhere?

• damncabbage 16y ago
  Dustin Curtis may have a lot to answer for. http://dustincurtis.com/you_should_follow_me_on_twitter.html http://dustincurtis.com/you_should_follow_me_on_twitter.html
  • tomjen3 16y ago
    Cargo cult twittering?
  • benjoffe 16y ago
    I wonder if the results were more due to the face that the sentence itself is longer, rather than the specific words used (a longer sentence being a larger target for the user's eyes to land on).
    • silentbicycle 16y ago
      He addresses that in the post. Phrasing it as other long sentences fared comparatively poorly.
  • wakeup 16y ago
    This only shows how retarded most human beings are.
  • gbhn 16y ago
    Yes, everyone uses this formula now. It's annoying.
    • GHFigs 16y ago
      "People should stop asking me to follow them now."
• necolas 16y ago
  Yes, I have too. It's already been changed in my local build, just holding off on pushing a raft of updates until something else has gone live.
• corin_ 16y ago
  I don't like being told to follow, but I'm more than happy to be given a link to their account.
• nchlswu 16y ago
  Pretty interesting how this has been picked up by so many, and now, at least to some is getting annoying. I presume Dustin's audience is very "niche". They were responsible, if you will for the conversion results in his article, and after the article are annoyed by it.
• phlux 16y ago
  I KNOW -- I was just tweeting about this! Seriously - go check out my twits. /s
• nirmal 16y ago
  On my blog I use "Have a comment? Contact me on Twitter or email me." with links for "Twitter" and "email me".
• dcurtis 16y ago
  Yes. You should stop using "You should follow me on twitter".