Comments on: Are Teens Using Twitter? http://www.htmlcenter.com/blog/are-teens-using-twitter/ Web Development Help and Tutorials Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:25:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Curtiss http://www.htmlcenter.com/blog/are-teens-using-twitter/#comment-9193 Curtiss Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:59:11 +0000 http://www.htmlcenter.com/?p=1001#comment-9193 That's a fantastic synopsis (worthy of its own blog post). Thanks for your thoughts. The "Gurus" really muddy the waters for me, as quite a few of them have glommed onto my account and followed me. In my line of work, it becomes difficult to separate the people that are strictly there for marketing purposes and the ones that are actually posting useful information (since much of what they post could actually be useful if it's not a scam). Generally, unless I see some extremely useful information in their recent tweets, I'll let those people continue to follow me (I won't block them), but I won't follow them back. That’s a fantastic synopsis (worthy of its own blog post). Thanks for your thoughts. The “Gurus” really muddy the waters for me, as quite a few of them have glommed onto my account and followed me.

In my line of work, it becomes difficult to separate the people that are strictly there for marketing purposes and the ones that are actually posting useful information (since much of what they post could actually be useful if it’s not a scam). Generally, unless I see some extremely useful information in their recent tweets, I’ll let those people continue to follow me (I won’t block them), but I won’t follow them back.

]]> By: Kunal Kripalani http://www.htmlcenter.com/blog/are-teens-using-twitter/#comment-9191 Kunal Kripalani Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:33:34 +0000 http://www.htmlcenter.com/?p=1001#comment-9191 You make a good point. Twitter does not ask for your birth date, so we are left to rely on third party surveys for user profile information. I think rather than segment Twitter users by age, looking at them at how different types of people use Twitter is more valuable. For example: Lifestreamers: People who broadcast every little aspect of their life on Twitter. They will automatically follow you back after you follow them, but they are not interested in what you have to say, with a strong internal focus. Gurus: People who exclusively broadcast and retweet information about their field of expertise. Common titles include: 'Social Media Gurus' 'Internet Marketing Expert' etc. They are interested in building a large follower base and will follow you in the hope that you follow them back, to produce the illusion of their influence. You will typically receive a generic and useless direct message after you follow them along the lines of "Thanks for the follow. I look forward to your Tweets. Check out my site...." Networkers: These people arguably use Twitter for what it was meant for. To communicate and connect with a community of their peers, be it around an interest or a geographic region or both. They collaborate, comment and help increase the value of their community. Affiliate Marketers: The Twitterverse spammers. Trend hijackers who follow you in the hopes that you follow them back so that they can send you their junk mail about the latest get rich quick scheme or "How to gain 4000 new Twitter followers in 7 days" Parasites. Socialites: People who use Twitter in a totally blase fashion. Purely social in their intent, there's no subterfuge in their interactions. They are on Twitter for fun. You make a good point. Twitter does not ask for your birth date, so we are left to rely on third party surveys for user profile information. I think rather than segment Twitter users by age, looking at them at how different types of people use Twitter is more valuable. For example:

Lifestreamers: People who broadcast every little aspect of their life on Twitter. They will automatically follow you back after you follow them, but they are not interested in what you have to say, with a strong internal focus.

Gurus: People who exclusively broadcast and retweet information about their field of expertise. Common titles include: ‘Social Media Gurus’ ‘Internet Marketing Expert’ etc. They are interested in building a large follower base and will follow you in the hope that you follow them back, to produce the illusion of their influence. You will typically receive a generic and useless direct message after you follow them along the lines of “Thanks for the follow. I look forward to your Tweets. Check out my site….”

Networkers: These people arguably use Twitter for what it was meant for. To communicate and connect with a community of their peers, be it around an interest or a geographic region or both. They collaborate, comment and help increase the value of their community.

Affiliate Marketers: The Twitterverse spammers. Trend hijackers who follow you in the hopes that you follow them back so that they can send you their junk mail about the latest get rich quick scheme or “How to gain 4000 new Twitter followers in 7 days” Parasites.

Socialites: People who use Twitter in a totally blase fashion. Purely social in their intent, there’s no subterfuge in their interactions. They are on Twitter for fun.

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