Since I’ve become a bit of a Twitter addict, I’ve noticed that the way people use their bio differs incredibly. From what I’ve seen, I’ve summarised a few Twitter personalities below..
The “oh it’s just me” type
These are the bios that simply explain who the person is, and perhaps what they do. You know the usual, “Hi, I’m Dave, 32 and I’m a graphic designer”. I assume these people don’t want to seem too try hard and simply want to use Twitter for business purposes.
The “OH MY GOD I LOVE JUSTIN BIEBER” type
This pretty much speaks for itself -those that have purely created a Twitter account so they can stalk the hell out of a certain celebrity who they “just have to meet.” This type can often be quite scary in their determination to get a RT from said celeb, and can get quite personal in the process. The bios will often be riddled with typos and ridiculous, unnecessary symbols and read a little something like “wє αrє hєrє вєcαusє σf Justin Bieber♥ hє tαught us tσ bєlíєvє ín σur drєαms, вєcαusє єvєrчthíng’s rєαchαвlє. nєvєr sαч nєvєr♥ℒινℯ.ℒℴνℯ.ℬℯℓιℯъ♡” Yeah, erm sure..
The “Please someone give me a job, any job!” type
Now this type I can obviously relate to, but at the same time it can get a bit cringey when your bio reads “Amazing graduate looking for a job doing anything, in any sector. Check out my online CV, my video CVIV, my blog, my website. Please!” This type also tend to spend pretty much their entire day tweeting company after company asking if they have any vacancies. Sure, it might work sometimes, but why not focus your efforts on those few companies that you really want to work for, and spend your time building up relationships with them?
The “AAAGH I’m just so quirky and random” type
These people will often just have a few completely random words to apparently describe themselves. These are obviously fine and not actually annoying, but surely they realise writing “Toast. Rainbows. Fun.” doesn’t actually say a lot about them, so why would anyone be interested? Fair play you are very random though..
The “I’m so intelligent” type
Now these ones can really bug me. Your bio is supposed to tell people a little something about you, maybe who you are or what you do. So why do so many people insist on copying and pasting in a quote from some well (or little) known scholar or public figure? I can only think that they’re doing it to try to seem intelligent, and perhaps the reality is that they actually are. But to be honest when you have a quote from Aristotle in your bio and then tweet continuously about absolute rubbish with lots of typos, it doesn’t seem quite right.
So where do I fit in? I’ll paste mine below and let you decide..
Classic rant/post here Nat!!
How many people do you think carefully consider what they write as their bio? To me it seems there are two different methods in which people create their bio, rather than a summary of what is written.
1) Those who do a quick summary of who they are, what they do and their interests.
2) Those who think far too long and hard and end up as:
- The “Please someone give me a job, any job!” type;
- The “AAAGH I’m just so quirky and random” type; or
- The “I’m so intelligent” type.
Still, no matter how much you consider your bio, it can all be ruined with a couple of stupid tweets which followers find offensive or just plain old boring.
Suppose it really comes down to whether you decide to have a corporate or personal account. A very fine line inbetween the two.