If you aren't on twitter by now, theres a good chance you shouldn't be. Its quickly become a simple means of mass communication and I'm amazed that there are still people who haven't figured out how to use it. Then there are the people like me that tweet often. We've figured out a way to do everything from sell sneakers, to watch streams of DirectTV games online for free. Its all in who you follow and follows you back.
The communication is unique in the sense that there are styles of tweets much like dialect and slang are in languages. I've found that there are generally 7 types of tweeters. 6 of which are in my timeline.
Type 1 - "The Lame"
This type of person usually has a low follower count because they are boring. They generally update twitter with tweets like "Doing laundry" "Eating breakfast" "Headed to work" "Watching the game" - Even if they were a celeb, people would stop following them. I don't follow these people.
Type 2 - "The Re-Tweeter"
This person usually communicates by Re-tweeting what someone has sent them followed by a statement that they are making so their followers can see what was said to them. ex -
@KingJaffeTopher Whats good with you bro? - (Nothing much mane, chilling)Sometimes this gets annoying - Especially if nobody is saying anything worth seeing.
Type 3 - "The Troll"
This type of person is usually saying off the wall stuff to get a rise out of anybody. Tweets usually consist of general nonsense and inferior people or products being better than their competition. ex -
I can hear my parents having sex in the next room FMLYeah...okay buddy
Kerry Collins >>> Peyton Manning
I'm about to sniff cocaine for the first time.
Type 4 - "The Trendy Tweeter"
This person usually comes to life when an interesting trend starts on twitter and they go in.... Matter of fact, most of the times they go in for too long. You're cool and all but two days on the same trending topic is OD.
Type 5 - "The Social yet Non-Social Tweeter"
You know them. You either get none of their tweets or all of their tweets. They usually have conversations on twitter with one person all day. If you're using third party apps like myself, you don't see this if they are conversing with a person you're not following. If you're following both of them, its like being in a room with 10 people who are all talking as a group except the 2 that are talking to each other.
Type 6 - "The Wisdom Giver"
Rev Run is the most famous, but regular people do this too. Every tweet has some sort of "wisdom" in it.... Everybody isn't good at this as tweets that read "What goes up, must come down" isn't really wisdom.
[Sidebar] Why isn't Rev. Run following ONE person?
Type 7 - "The Acronym and Secret Society Tweeter"
I'm guilty of this. This type of tweeter usually posts stuff that makes sense to a large number of their followers who understand the lingo. ex -
#NT LOL @ that #YNS TT we got going.
8o 8o yall see those pics :hat :hat
:eek at that Moss catch
Headache FTL-Oxycontin FTW!!!!
Lets start a PYP on twitter
:{@ you FOH with that nonsense (-__-)(No thats not a frowny face)
There are a lot more out there including those that are a super-combo of the aforementioned types. Please tweet responsibly. LOL!
