4 types of Twitter users who piss you off

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I love Twitter and social media in general. Well, love is probably a strong word. I like using social media. It helps me to promote this blog and my other projects, to interact with friends, family, readers, celebrities, and the like, and it helps me to get the latest news and gossip from around the world. As someone with a technology background, I appreciate being connected to the world through many different platforms. All things in life have pros, and cons, and Twitter is no different. Some of the people on that site are beyond wack, and starved for attention. Trust me, it’s not everyone, because if it was I wouldn’t use it anymore. However there are certain types of Twitter users who really irk me to no avail:

Twitter Comedians

These are the people who are fake funny. They try super hard to make jokes, showing no regard for taste or decorum. Anytime someone famous dies, they take that opportunity to attempt to type a clever 140 character punchline. These punchlines usually fall flat, and come across as sexist, racist, tasteless, and utterly corny! let me also say here that the way in which people on Twitter joke about death is mind-boggling. I mean, when it comes to celebrities I guess everything is on limits, but people go out of their way to disrespect a life, and that’s just crazy to me! They are the ones who will watch TV or the major awards show with Twitter, and will have something snarky cued up to go with the flow of everyone else. It’s like they have all the “Funny or Die” esque websites bookmarked on their browsers, and they are ready to test their humour. Think about when Will Smith thought he could do stand up comedy like DL Hughley on that episode of Fresh Prince, and bombed like no other, until DL held it down. That’s how some of these fake Twitter stand up comics act.

Twitter Activists

Ever since the #TroyDavis situation, I’ve seen a resurgence in this category of Twitter user. These are the fake revolutionaries, who want to bring change to the world one tweet at a time. They fail to realize, however, that the revolution will not be re-tweeted. Only by utilizing physical and viral activism, can true change occur. We sat here and typed until our fingers bled about Troy Davis’s execution, yet what was truly done? Meanwhile, these #OccupyWallSt Hippies are shutting down lower Manhattan, making people miss trains and disrupting the normalcy of the financial district.

Then, on top of this, they will  inundate your mentions for not paying homage to every political battle or injustice every day of your life. If we comment on Football on Sunday, the latest ratchetness popping off on the tweets, or anything else that brings people joy, they bomb your timeline with tweets like “I guess yall forgot about Troy Davis” and “Dudes talk about Steve Jobs but what about Emmit Till, he died too” and all this other bullshit. You know, I don’t have to tweet about injustices daily to prove that I’m aware and want to make change happen. Life goes on, and I use twitter how I feel. Stop being fake conscious, fake concerned, and fake militant!

Mr Me Too

These users timeline is full of RT’s from other users. They will follow the most popular people on Twitter, and really suck them off with approval. Like they think everything is funny or poignant that comes out of their @’s. They will slash, maim, slaughter, and fatalitize any and all funny sayings or Twitter meme’s that exist. “No Country For” suffered a great demise due to it being run like Olympic track and field, and other sayings aint that different!

If that isn’t bad enough, they blatantly BITE other people’s tweets! I swear, I’ve seen it with my own eyes and I couldn’t believe it. Like, how corny can you be?! You cats seriously make me consider putting copyright signs and trademarks at the end of all my tweets! Be original or be real about your “inspiration”.

The Alter Ego

These are the people on Twitter who are NOTHING like how they are in real life! I’ve met a lot of people on Twitter outside of the Matrix, and I can say that the personalities translate well. A few of you definitely are on your Clark Kent / Superman fleaux. Some of the funniest people are Twitter are introverted in reality. I guess the comfort of interaction with other people from behind a keyboard helps them to channel a more amiable persona. Some people seem super cool and connected, and when you meet them, they are 100% fronting! This works in the opposite way too, because some of the wildest, assholish, Twitter users could be some of the coolest dudes/gals I’ve met for real. This leads to the bigger problem of how technology may hamper our communication skills, but that’s another blog. Just know not to expect a Twitter personality to match who they are in the physical.

I know this won’t change those people from being what they are, and it shouldn’t. Honestly they contribute to the overall Twitter ecosystem. It’s a problem when you front for social media, and end up losing yourself. Don’t front, because more people see it then you may think.

P.S. No @’s, it’s daps all around!

StreetZ

P.P.S. – There is the other side, where perception does not = reality regarding online personas. I wrote about that on SBM HERE Also, for the Facebook lover in you, you can catch me on the Streetztalk FB Page

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