So while randumbly surfing the www, i came across an article on the types of people you find on Twitter. You can read the same here.
My take on the same topic is going to be purely what I've seen AND come across on my Time Line or TL (suit yourself).
Category 1. The Beggars - Usually tweet a whole lot of crap. Okay,maybe I am being nasty, we all tweet crap. But these people are exceptional! So you hit the unfollow button, and Kaboom! within two seconds, you'll receive a sad smiley filled tweet asking you to give reasons for unfollowing along with a whole lot of other nonsensical crap.
My Take - GROW UP! and move on!
Category 2. The Celebrity 'Friends' - Usually get one reply from a celebrity and go ga-ga and will include that celebrity in each and every tweet OR worse, re-tweet every tweet of that celebrity.
My Take - Stalker like tendencies usually end up getting frustrated when they stop getting no more than one reply from celebrity.
Category 3. Attention Seeking Whores - Will tweet incessantly about how they fainted,broke a shoe,chipped a nail,got laid etc. and all this in such a manner so as to try and get followers and obviously much deprived attention!
My Take - Lagey Raho Baccho.
Category 4. The Butt In's. - Will usually poke their big rear end into any and mostly every conversation when they feel left out. This resulting in irritation between the original conversation starters and killing the conversation.
My Take - When two or three adults are speaking, children should know better than to butt in.
Category 5. The Chatterati - who somehow don't have access to any chat room and thereby end up spamming the TL who use twitter as their personal chat room.
My Take - Yahoo! & G talk offer free chat options. Use them!
Category 6. The Majnu's & The Laila's - Usually heartbroken,depressed about a breakup which happened 5 years ago. Resulting in sad love song links, poetry and tweeting about litres of alcohol consumed every night.
My Take - Please do not consider everybody on twitter to be your shoulder to cry on ALL the time!
Category 7. Tit for Tat - usually believe in the policy of 'If you don't follow me back, I will unfollow you' OR 'i will follow you for as long as you follow me' group. Sooper sentimental & bug you consistently with quotes on friendship blah blah blah...
My Take - Whatever! I hold up three fingers and the middle one is for you!
Category 8. The Paranoid Tweeter - who believes that every aggressive tweet is about them.
My Take - *rolls eyes* ignore such people. Am serious.
Category 9. Emo's - different from the break up kind, but usually will tweet stuff which no tweeter in the right mind can ever understand.
My Take - Make sense or prepare to be unfollowed.
Category 10. Text Tweeters - whu use txt lang.in a tweet n thnk v all luv 2 rd dis way.
My Take - Twitter has a limit of 140 characters you dingbat!!
Category 11. The Band Wagoners - jump onto any and every social cause bandwagon just because it makes them seem the smartest things on twitter.
My Take - Dahlin's you ain't gonna be photographed for Page 3 in your city.
Category 12. The Ignoramus Lot - who think they're being funny while they write about a serious topic & mock people,community etc and doing all this while tweeting about how one should not mock race,religion etc.
My Take - Stop getting your content from India TV & watch a more sensible news channel.
Category 13. The Stalkers - will DM you, then gradually irritate the hell out of you to accept the friend request on facebook, ask/get your number, get a tweet-up organized and then drive you up the wall if you end up meeting any other tweeter without notifying them.
My Take - Take a walk!
Category 14. The Mask-eteers - Will pretend to show love & affection on twitter to a person, and offline will be a completely different personality just waiting to blurt out gossip or bitch about the same 'love'ly person.
My Take - you lot depress me. door ho jao meri nazaro se. Or in other words, Fuck Off!
Category 15. The Horny-gators - These tweeters usually end up using twitter as a platform to get laid. If not in their own region, will find a one night stand in another region, but hornia has to be satiated.
My Take - Please play safe! I don't want to hear you rant about what a big mistake unsafe sex is. I don't want to see your mistake!
Yep. So that's my categorization. To be honest, I do fall in almost 6 of the categories. Which one do you fall into?
Oh and you can follow/unfollow me on twitter. I am @barkingbegum with 758 tweets and counting. 70 followers and 57 'friends'.
And on that note, Shalom!
My take on the same topic is going to be purely what I've seen AND come across on my Time Line or TL (suit yourself).
Category 1. The Beggars - Usually tweet a whole lot of crap. Okay,maybe I am being nasty, we all tweet crap. But these people are exceptional! So you hit the unfollow button, and Kaboom! within two seconds, you'll receive a sad smiley filled tweet asking you to give reasons for unfollowing along with a whole lot of other nonsensical crap.
My Take - GROW UP! and move on!
Category 2. The Celebrity 'Friends' - Usually get one reply from a celebrity and go ga-ga and will include that celebrity in each and every tweet OR worse, re-tweet every tweet of that celebrity.
My Take - Stalker like tendencies usually end up getting frustrated when they stop getting no more than one reply from celebrity.
Category 3. Attention Seeking Whores - Will tweet incessantly about how they fainted,broke a shoe,chipped a nail,got laid etc. and all this in such a manner so as to try and get followers and obviously much deprived attention!
My Take - Lagey Raho Baccho.
Category 4. The Butt In's. - Will usually poke their big rear end into any and mostly every conversation when they feel left out. This resulting in irritation between the original conversation starters and killing the conversation.
My Take - When two or three adults are speaking, children should know better than to butt in.
Category 5. The Chatterati - who somehow don't have access to any chat room and thereby end up spamming the TL who use twitter as their personal chat room.
My Take - Yahoo! & G talk offer free chat options. Use them!
Category 6. The Majnu's & The Laila's - Usually heartbroken,depressed about a breakup which happened 5 years ago. Resulting in sad love song links, poetry and tweeting about litres of alcohol consumed every night.
My Take - Please do not consider everybody on twitter to be your shoulder to cry on ALL the time!
Category 7. Tit for Tat - usually believe in the policy of 'If you don't follow me back, I will unfollow you' OR 'i will follow you for as long as you follow me' group. Sooper sentimental & bug you consistently with quotes on friendship blah blah blah...
My Take - Whatever! I hold up three fingers and the middle one is for you!
Category 8. The Paranoid Tweeter - who believes that every aggressive tweet is about them.
My Take - *rolls eyes* ignore such people. Am serious.
Category 9. Emo's - different from the break up kind, but usually will tweet stuff which no tweeter in the right mind can ever understand.
My Take - Make sense or prepare to be unfollowed.
Category 10. Text Tweeters - whu use txt lang.in a tweet n thnk v all luv 2 rd dis way.
My Take - Twitter has a limit of 140 characters you dingbat!!
Category 11. The Band Wagoners - jump onto any and every social cause bandwagon just because it makes them seem the smartest things on twitter.
My Take - Dahlin's you ain't gonna be photographed for Page 3 in your city.
Category 12. The Ignoramus Lot - who think they're being funny while they write about a serious topic & mock people,community etc and doing all this while tweeting about how one should not mock race,religion etc.
My Take - Stop getting your content from India TV & watch a more sensible news channel.
Category 13. The Stalkers - will DM you, then gradually irritate the hell out of you to accept the friend request on facebook, ask/get your number, get a tweet-up organized and then drive you up the wall if you end up meeting any other tweeter without notifying them.
My Take - Take a walk!
Category 14. The Mask-eteers - Will pretend to show love & affection on twitter to a person, and offline will be a completely different personality just waiting to blurt out gossip or bitch about the same 'love'ly person.
My Take - you lot depress me. door ho jao meri nazaro se. Or in other words, Fuck Off!
Category 15. The Horny-gators - These tweeters usually end up using twitter as a platform to get laid. If not in their own region, will find a one night stand in another region, but hornia has to be satiated.
My Take - Please play safe! I don't want to hear you rant about what a big mistake unsafe sex is. I don't want to see your mistake!
Yep. So that's my categorization. To be honest, I do fall in almost 6 of the categories. Which one do you fall into?
Oh and you can follow/unfollow me on twitter. I am @barkingbegum with 758 tweets and counting. 70 followers and 57 'friends'.
And on that note, Shalom!
This was a great read..a witty insight into all the various ppl we run into on our TLs. And ur takes on them..well, it's what we all think but don't say out loud. :D Great stuff!
ReplyDeleteGreat read. So much research. Wah :D
ReplyDeletei can't believe you actually came up with 15 categories! bloody awesome!
ReplyDelete@ Alok,Karthik,Kenny - Thanks Guys. It's taken two twitter i.d's to learn about such people. :D
ReplyDeleteChange twitter to real life . Works. Same types. Real life too. Try it. Go out. Meet people. Yo'll see exact these types. Just a microcosm.
ReplyDelete*falls at ur feet*
ReplyDeleteYou know it all :) :)
Great post... I fall in ummm 5-6 categories too :P Naice!
Ha, a bit of this. A bit of that. A twit nonetheless. A tit, if you can call some that. Big ideas. Short sentences. 140 characters. And yet, fewer laughs. One created the monster. A million fed it. But the question remains, can we do without them we despise? Or the ones that make us look like shining beacons of humanity with their ignorance? Or rants? Or raves? Or outrages? Along comes a failwhale and gives us the answer we already know. No.
ReplyDelete@Farting Pen - True. This post wouldn't have been possible without these people on twitter. :)
ReplyDelete@vins - yeah.i guess you're right.
@Me - glad you accepted you 'fall' in some categories. :)
:) amazing .. u have indeed have research ready here. I would relate and eg for each and every category :P
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