Social media stereotypes: you are what you share on
A fun piece of research from Prospect Magazine has concluded that UK twitter users are mostly liberal bleeding heart environmentalists that hate the Daily Mail.
It hasn’t really surprised anyone who has followed the various scandals which have recently spread across twitter: their consistent element has been a desire to put a boot into the right wing and/or elite.
But are users of other social sites as easy to pigeonhole? Well, let’s see.
vimeo
You are way too cool for YouTube - it’s full of teenage halfwits - and instead use vimeo to share videos of obscure art installations, cult 1980s cartoons and the derivative TV commercials for pet food you worked on before being made redundant.
myspace
You are a spammer. And not a very good one.
digg
You are a computing student from Montana who can crack a Starbucks wifi network in minutes but doesn’t have the confidence to actually talk to the cute girl behind the counter.
bebo
You are 13 or, um, like 13 year olds.
last.fm
You are a Swedish teenager with black hair who will happily spend hours telling you why In Rainbows is the best Radiohead album.
friendster
You are the only one here.
friendfeed
You are a social media consultant who has more friends online than you every will in the real world. You would quite like to own a segway.
4chan
No one knows who you are. It’s probably best.
facebook
You are a human being on planet earth.
Any more? Share in the comments
Tags: facebook, socialmedia, twitter, video
By Dom Waghorn, Head of User Engagement at 
November 24th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Seems pretty watertight.
One thing i’ve been pondering on is why none of the many copywriters I’ve known or worked with over the years are on Twitter - not one. Despite all being on Facebook.
I wonder if it’s that they’re all so used to writing broadcast messages and really have no idea or interest in open-ended comments. It’s all tightly composed sub Charlie Brookerisms.
November 24th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
You might be right. Twitter is counter-intuitive to the crafting of the perfect message and much more weighted towards speed.
Maybe someone should create a copywriter version of twitter where you can post 5 or 6 different ‘routes’ for each post.
As an aside, one of Syzygy’s copywriters is tweeting: http://twitter.com/undercoverman