Dinesh Soni’s Blog

First thing first. I don’t understand why many people take twitter as verb and twitterer as noun. That might be the thing said by the site itself. But i always take twit as a verb and twitter as noun. So being on this site for around a year now, I was just wondering how many different types of twitters I’ve come across so far.

1. The newbies: Every person joining twitter starts from here. He has either heard of twitter from a friend or seen a friend twitting and so joins out of curiosity. Some of them do survive in long run but most of them get lost in the crowd after first 20-30 tweets. Those who stay glued, get divided into some subcategories.

2. I need followers: They are constantly on look out for new ways to get extra followers. They will follow random people so that those random people too follow them. They will use those tools to increase number of followers, will RT any damn tweets thinking it will give them more followers and they will ask everyone to follow them whenever meeting anyone online. The first thing they will say to fellow twitter is “I’ve got 1500 followers. What about you? How many you have?”. Only apparent reason being opportunity to cash in the number of followers sometime through sponsored twits or apps like magpie.

3. I want to follow: They are not really concerned about who follows them. They just go ahead and follow hundreds of people. Trying to gain maximum knowledge through tweets of these people. These people won’t twit much on their own but will read others’ tweets very regularly and consciously. Not sure if they end up learning much stuff.

4. I need to follow that chick: The first question they will ask to a fellow twitter is “Whats twitter handle of that girl we met in last tweetup?”. They will follow each random girl on twitter and immediately add everyone on facebook, linkedin, orkut and possible every social network available. Probably even hi5 and wayn too… I suppose girls are smart enough to recognise these types quickly.

5. I don’t follow whom I don’t know: They will start following you only after you meet at some meetup and speak for atleast 5 minutes. Following someone they don’t know is big NO NO for them. I wonder if they got real meaning of twitter or probably they are the only ones who got *real* meaning of twitter.

6. The protected ones: Simple way to identify them is by the lock that appears next to their snap. They keep the account protected by the fear of either employer reading their tweets or by the fear of partner. Or they think they are celebrity. You never know, some of them might actually be celebrities in their own field.

7. I want to maintain the ratio: They are always concerned about their follower:following ratio. And they make every effort to keep the ratio at particular level. As soon as ratio goes below the level, they will start unfollowing people and ask people to follow them. Other times, they are cool and will twit in their own ways.

8. The divine ones: They don’t care who or how many are following them. They will follow whom they feel like following and they will twit what they want to twit. They won’t ask any friend to follow them. They won’t even follow someone just because he is a friend. And they will surely not think twice before twitting something. They will go ahead and twit whatever they feel like without thinking what the followers want to read.