7 observed Twitter archetypes

These are the archetypes I've noticed using Twitter.

1. Mickey ME-ME-ME!
2. Tina Trivia
3. Freddy Fragmentation
4. Polly Phoney
5. Cedric Spam-again
6. Lucy Local
7. Ozzie Occasional

Mickey ME-ME-ME!

Constantly posts, and has racked up over 12,000 updates in less than 10 days. Old wounds from playground days cause constant need to be talking about and promoting self - more than 80% of tweets are about self successes. Remaining 20% of tweets are self-promotion-by-proxy, bigging up cronies and analgazing towards the few people loftier than selves.

Tina Trivia

Sweet, endearing, and decent person basically having a fiddle with Twitter.
Tweets once a day with something like: 'got foot scrub caught in drawer - took me ages to get it out again. Probably have a beer now'.

Freddy Fragmentation

Is a publisher or micropublisher (blogger, other website / service) boshing out stream of syndicated content from main platform to Twitter because it's another available outlet in this ever-fragmenting media consumption world.

Polly Phoney

Got into it to say they had for professional reasons. Genuinely they feel they understand it and know which box Twitter fits in, but actually don't at all.

Cedric Spam-again

Cunning new age spamming twat that is followed by 9 people and is following 34,873 people, because they've realised that people get a high when they get a mail saying 'Spam Captain is now following you'. Working the numbers. Should have their intimate bits nailed to a fridge door.

Lucy Local

Has a ring of local mates moderately or heavily using Twitter. Is using it overwhelmingly as a social network and actually finds it very useful for keeping in touch and ambient intimacy with people they already care about and/or know.

Olivia Occasional

Potters about with it. Posts infrequently - once one week; 3 times in a day on another day.

Me? I'd hope I was mainly Lucy (oo-er - OK, maybe Louis) Local, but I have been known to send the odd nauseating Mickey Me-Me-Me! tweet too.

You'd have to be a regular twitter user to recognise these, but if you are I wonder which you are :)

Comments

[Paul Walsh]

Lucy Local I hope :)

[aka_monty]

I think I'm sort of a Lucy/Olivia(Ozzie?) mix, slipping in an occasional bit o' the Mickey.

[Curtis]

From your descriptions, I fear I fall into the Mickey Me Me Me far too often. Which is funny, because in person, you know real life, I struggle to talk about myself without feeling like I'm showing off/being big headed/blowing my own trumpet.

[jenni]

Me, I'm Lucy Local for deffo, although Livvy & Tina might occasionally make a schizo appearance...

[David Stone]

This made me giggle. Spot on! I'd put myself in the same categories as yourself.

[Will McInnes]

ha - brilliant! so nice to see this obviously resonated with the twitterat.

curtis - i've not noticed yours being mickey me me at all, but will look out for it in future!

perhaps we all need to give one another permission to shout loudly if someone is veering into 'bad' territories!!!

[Trevor]

Definitely Lucy with a bit of Mickey from time to time. My alter-ego has also been a bit Freddy too of late, but it's just an experiment... so far.

[Drew Benvie]

Nice post. Now this needs to me in a magazine! :-)

I think I would be a variation of Lucy - but local as in my industry. All my friends and followers are either PR people, journalists or social media types.