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title: "What is the most irritating thing about Twitter and/or Twitter users?"  
description: "What is the most irritating thing about Twitter and/or Twitter users?"  
author: "Steilla Mitchel"  
published: 2022-03-21  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96412/what-is-the-most-irritating-thing-about-twitter-and-or-twitter-users  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["troubleshooting", "twitter", "social media"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# What is the most irritating thing about Twitter and/or Twitter users?

What is the most irritating thing about Twitter and/or Twitter [users](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/84014/5-reasons-why-facebook-is-starting-to-lose-users)?

## Answers

### Answer by Sarda Kumari

## Twitter: an overview

**[Twitter](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96402/what-is-twitter)** is an online news and social networking site where people communicate in short messages called tweets. Tweeting is posting short messages to anyone who follows you on Twitter, with the hope that your words are useful and interesting to someone in your audience. Another description of Twitter and tweeting might be microblogging.

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Some people use Twitter to discover interesting people and companies online, opting to follow their tweets. ![What is the most irritating thing about Twitter and/or Twitter users?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/a55822e7-da36-4574-8e87-7784d524c10d/images/8cdec14d-5f7c-4333-98e0-c95be3364b8a.jpeg)\
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**Read also: [Why do you not use Twitter?](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96413/why-do-you-not-use-twitter)** **\** Twitter employs a purposeful **message** size restriction to keep things scan-friendly: every **microblog tweet** entry is limited to 280 characters or less. This size cap promotes the focused and clever use of language, which makes tweets easy to scan, and challenging to write. This size restriction made Twitter a popular **social tool**. However Twitter is irritating due to the following few reasons, \
1. During the 2016 presidential elections in the US, **fake news** on the popular social media platform- Twitter became a cause of public **concern**. A probe into the matter reveals that most often such attacks are made by Twitter bots. \
2. Social media platforms are not devoid of **trolling** and to that Twitter is no exception. Its limited character count and the fact that people can type away hiding behind a screen, together make it grounds for increased trolling and **hate speech**. \
3. It can also give rise to **propaganda** when incomplete tweets from politicians or celebrities are **misconstrued.** While people have found a way around it and continue to voice their complete thoughts in a Twitter thread, most people may not bother reading the whole thing.


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