There are mixed opinions of lots of people about Twitter that how it should and should not be used. It is one of the medium which you can modify to fit your individual needs. It is up to you how you want to use it.
Because of this flexibility there are lots of people using Twitter but many of them are not using it correctly and it can & does damage their business very badly. Here I am sharing some behaviors that can kill your online reputation and business on Twitter.
1. Leave Your Name, Location, Avatar and/or Bio Blank
These fields are very basic but can play important role when someone wants to know more about you then you should have that info present on your profile.
It is always advised to use custom avatar for your profile instead of default Twitter avatar. It could be your site logo or may be your actual photo. Just something else than default avatar.
2. Never Tweet
Twitter is all about sharing and communication. There is no reason to have Twitter account with few or many followers if you are not really Tweeting. You need to communicate with your followers and engage yourself in person-to-person relationships.
3. Go Crazy With Affiliate Links
Twitter is there to “communicate” not only to “promote” your site or to increase your clicks through affiliate links. If you are continuously posting affiliate links, you will start to build a negative reputation. No matter how many followers you have but if you go crazy with affiliate links the followers will not be interested in your tweets and stop following you.
4. Self-Promotion To The Extreme
As mentioned above, Twitter is there to “communicate”, if you do not share useful information with your followers but only through your own site’s links to them then you will not be appreciated.
Share information others might find useful, retweet, and read and comment on what your followers are posting. And when you get comments and retweets, please, acknowledge them and say thank you!
5. Posting Useless Replies
It’s not really that useful, or for that matter convenient, to frequently reply “ha!” “lol” or “so true” to something someone has “tweeted”. This can be annoying when a group of people with similar interests follow each other and your well intentioned tweets begin to fill up someone’s Twitter feed. Also, it’s not a good idea to reply without providing context. Twitter has a notion of threaded conversations, but it also moves pretty fast so it’s a good idea to reply with context as to which tweet you’re responding to.
6. Attack, Abuse or Talk Badly about People
Think twice before using Twitter to attack, verbally abuse or otherwise denigrate someone else. A public forum is never the place to express anger at another person, whether it’s justified or not. This kind of activity only makes you look bad…and it’s embarrassing for those of us who have to witness it.
Related Topic: Everything You Need To Know About Twitter
What do you think about the info I shared? what other points you would like to add to the list? Please reply and share your opinions.
at 3:22 pm
Very useful tips for the starters!!!! ofc it always depends what business you got if you ´ve a news like CNN they only ´ll tweet the news they got and people wont get tired for that motive because was that motive that they join CNN
just an amateur example… but in general i truly agree with this steps 
great post. already Rtweeted 
at 8:16 pm
Yes, you gave right example actually. You should have some “topic” for your tweets so that your followers get the updates of your tweets on the same topic every time.
Like me following only designers and design related sites on twitter so they all enjoy my tweets & I enjoy there’s. If I start tweeting about “make money online” or something else they will not like it and stop following me.
Thanks for your time
at 8:16 pm
Yes, you gave right example actually. You should have some “topic” for your tweets so that your followers get the updates of your tweets on the same topic every time.
Like me following only designers and design related sites on twitter so they all enjoy my tweets & I enjoy there’s. If I start tweeting about “make money online” or something else they will not like it and stop following me.
Thanks for your time
at 12:14 pm
yea nice example
i do the same
at 9:02 pm
Good suggestion. There’s one thing I want to add, is don’t have a lopsided number of following vs followers. If you following 1500 people and only 100 is following you, it makes you look almost desperate. People tend not to follow you if they see this.
at 9:12 pm
Most People send out these Direct messages which I think is a Reason to Unfollow People because they Come Asking you and Not Giving.
I was on your Blog and Like your Post about Twitter Killing your Business This would be a Nice way to send a Direct message
at 8:11 pm
Useful article, has helped improve my tweeting
Thanks.
at 9:07 pm
Its really useful articles
its the first article i read about twitters drawbacks
at 12:57 pm
I’ve been thinking that twitter is something I must get into and I hadn’t considered the negative aspects of this until a major web hosting companies service went down and there were 1000′s of negative tweets.
Companies are now starting to appoint a team to deal with social media complaints and help to stem the reputation loss.
Bad communication adds the frustration, good communication and reassurance helps you come through a crisis stronger than you went in.