This week Twitter announced the launch of Trends in 100 more cities around the world including Istanbul, Frankfurt, Guadalajara and Incheon.

The update means that you can now get access to breaking news in more than 200 locations around the globe.

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Earlier today we reported on findings from the latest research from Pew Internet, which proposed that on average Twitter users were more highly educated than those on Facebook, but both fell short of the degree-waving members of business social network LinkedIn.

Pew’s analysis is packed full of findings, but there’s another tidbit that quickly caught my eye: how frequently people use the different social networks.

You’d think that fast-paced, real-time Twitter would rule this particular roost, as it’s oh-so-easy to dip in and out of the platform multiple times per day. But according to Pew, while Twitter is streets ahead of LinkedIn and MySpace, it’s Facebook users who are the most frequent users of their platform.

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Are you sending automated updates from Foursquare to your Twitter feed 20 times a day? Please stop. Believe me: nobody cares that you’re at Starbucks for the fourth time, or that you’ve just ousted somebody we don’t know as the mayor of Joe’s Pizza.

Nobody on Twitter, that is – your Foursquare network might be very interested. So why not leave it there?

The same goes for LinkedIn, Facebook and Quora, or anything else that lures you in with that convenient, but always undesirable, ‘send updates to Twitter’ checkbox.

Twitter works brilliantly as an aggregator for input – that is, being able to quickly and easily follow updates and content from newspapers, blogs, politicians, media moguls, celebrities, colleagues, friends and family – but if you’re aggregating your output, then it’s just a lot of unnecessary noise. And if you’re consciously adding to that, then yes, you are part of Twitter’s signal problem.

It’s also incredibly lazy. Repeat after me: automated bad, manual good.

I follow you on Twitter because I want to see what you have to say on Twitter. If I want to see what you’re saying on Facebook or Quora, then I’ll follow you there. As long as you’re saying different things. Seriously: if you’re mass-updating and churning out the same old stuff everywhere, or polluting the stream with a load of automated junk, then why would you expect anyone to follow you at all?

Twittercism is a now little over a year old. In that brief period of time this blog has expanded from fairly humble beginnings to a fully-fledged Twitter resource, providing commentary, tips, tutorials and guides, as well as a little bit of occasional criticism, too.

Over 7,000 people now read Twittercism on a daily basis, accessing the content via RSS feed, email, Facebook and Twitter itself.

I’m on a big expansion drive at the moment, and I’d absolutely love if it you could help me out. Everything on Twittercism is completely free, and if you feel you’ve received some value from the articles and information I’ve written and published on this site, it would be incredible if you could help me grow the readership of this blog by recommending it to your friends.

It’s very easy to do. Here’s how you can help, and I’m also going to lay out for you the various ways you can subscribe to Twittercism.

Note: All of these subscription methods are 100% free of charge, and you can opt out at any time.

Email

Almost three hundred people receive their updates from Twittercism via email. This goes out no more than once per day, and only when there’s something to say. No update, no email!

I’m really hoping to expand my email readership as in the weeks ahead I’m going to start sending out Twittercism newsletters, and these will only be available to email subscribers. The newsletters won’t be published on this blog or shared via Facebook or Twitter. Just email!

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