What’s the most annoying ‘growth hack’ that you see on Twitter? Overuse of hashtags? Directly asking for likes and retweets? Profiles noting that they ‘follow back’?
We recently put the question to the SMT community to glean some more insight into what bothers social media marketers the most in this respect.
Ah yes, the old hashtag every other word trick.
See, the thing is, hashtags connect users to a broader conversation, so hashtagging random words really doesn’t help. Because nobody’s searching through Twitter and thinking ‘hey, I wonder what people are discussing on the #morning hashtag’.