10 rules for the Twitter neophyte

Below is an exerpt from a great article about some of the "dos and don'ts" for using Twitter. As with manners of any kind, I think we could all use a little reminding every once in awhile.

From "10 rules for the Twitter neophyte" (click to read the entire article: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=979)

The rules:
1. Don’t direct-message me with something you are selling, especially at odd hours. That will get you deleted.
2. Don’t follow anyone whose messages say “Follow me.” Saying it is not a good reason.
3. Never follow anyone whose name is a city, vacation spot, or other vague reference.
4. Don’t follow anyone whose ratio of followers to following is more than 4:1. (Sorry celebs — any exceptions to this have to be outrageously interesting, and most of you are not.)
5. If you talk more than once about what you ate recently, you get unfollowed. No exceptions.
6. Don’t follow people who use “@” to direct-message someone with some personal comment instead of using “d.” (e.g., @Joe “Yeah.”) This either means the person isn’t following you or you are just lazy.
7. Don’t follow people with o_O as their icon/photo. Lame (or spam).
8. Porn and other raw sewage gets deleted and/or blocked. Sorry; not my idea of a network.
9. Unfollow people who keep sending the same message. Once might be an error or a correction, but this is the wrong way to overcome the “shotgun” shortcomings of Twitter.
10. Ignore and possibly unfollow people who consistently send out a URL with no explanation. Unless you have a network of only your relatives, why would anyone expect people to click on something just because they sent it?