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

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Dustin Curtis may have a lot to answer for.

http://dustincurtis.com/you_should_follow_me_on_twitter.html

Cargo cult twittering?

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).

He addresses that in the post. Phrasing it as other long sentences fared comparatively poorly.

Yes, everyone uses this formula now. It's annoying.

"People should stop asking me to follow them now."

I don't like being told to follow, but I'm more than happy to be given a link to their account.

Yes. You should stop using "You should follow me on twitter".

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.

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.

On my blog I use "Have a comment? Contact me on Twitter or email me." with links for "Twitter" and "email me".

I KNOW -- I was just tweeting about this! Seriously - go check out my twits.

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