Twitter Celebrity – A Guide March 30th, 2009
I accidentally raised a little controversy when I added myself as a joke to the #celebrity section of WeFollow. People either told me that I was dreaming (fair!) or that I actually was a celebrity, but only on Twitter. I wondered, what is a Twitter celebrity? After twelve minutes of intense thought, I have come to a conclusion. Here are the rankings for celebrity on Twitter:
The Guide To Twitter Celebrity
Broken down by account type, these assume that you are not a real celebrity in real life, or are at least not a luminary of some sort.
Number Of Followers:
0-200 – Twitter User – You use Twitter, you enjoy it, and that is enough for you. No shame here at all, you simply aren’t looking for a large following, or perhaps have not been able to garner one. Either way, you use Twitter, and you sit contentedly.
200-500 – Twitter Fan – Twitter is important for you, you spend at least some time on it every few hours or so. You are not a complete power user, but you still have some influence. You dream of having a larger following. Every @ you get is still a bit of a thrill.
500-2000 – Twitter Power User – Either through great content production, or through extended following and unfollowing, you have managed to accumulate a good sized following. You enjoy linking your own content and watching the traffic come in. You are aggresivly trying to add to your numbers, and worry about your following/follower ratio.
2000-3000 – Asipiring Twitter Celebrity – At this point, you are almost there. With this number of people tracking your updates, even discounting the spammers, you have some influence. Whenever you post a link, thirty people that show up and you feel like a hotshot. This might be the funnest moment in Twitter. People are beginning to notice you, and you have built a good network of friends. TweetDeck has become your best friend. You still make a habit of responding to every @ that you get, unless you are unconscious or in a foul mood.
3000-5000 – Minor Twitter Celebrity - You have made it! At this point, you have enough followers to truly push some numbers around. If you blog, your Twitter account is now the largest source of traffic that you receive. When you retweet something, people thank you. When you talk to a new person, people respond. Nearly ever tweet you send out, no matter how banal, receives some sort of feedback from somebody. Burn a cigar and laugh to yourself, you made it.
5000-10000 – Twitter Celebrity - Moving past the pee-wee celebrities, you have a giant list of people that have decided that you are interesting. Whatever it is that you did, it worked, and people have envy to your massive weight in the Twittersphere. People ask you to retweet things for them. You ask someone for an interview, and when you mention your Twitter account, they say yes. You are a celebrity because people listen to, and care what you say. You being to ruminate in the shower about your “personal brand.”
10000+ – Twitter God - Nothing against the religious, but at this point, you have reached the Twitter atmosphere. You are the man in the cloud. You shake servers a bit when you link, and you often get three to five retweets for a good link that you post. Several hundred people reach your blog when you post. You have more friends than you can respond to on Twitter. Fair enough you think, I am more important than they. You begin to wonder if you need a logo for yourself, after all, why not?
Add-On’s – Subtractoids – Ways to help or hurt your status in the above list, past simple follower levels:
- If you follow more than 2x as many people as follow you, deduct one level of Twitter Celebrity.
- If 2x more people follow you than you follow, move up one level of Twitter Celebrity.
- If you have more than 3,000 updates, at a + to your ranking. [I am a Twitter Fan+, for example, or whatever]
- If you have less than 1,000 updates, add a minus to your ranking. [I am a Aspiring Twitter Celebrity-, for example].
- If you have no avatar image, retreat back to Twitter User, no matter what.
There you have it! Where do you stand?
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Per requset, you can find me at: Twitter.com/Alex
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (7)
March 30th, 2009 at 8:35 am
Not only funny, but astoundingly accurate. I’m so proud to know a genuine celebrity.
March 30th, 2009 at 9:26 am
Alex,
Well, done! Love the humor. One thing I see missing here is a link to your Twitter account for anyone who reads this and decides they want to follow you. Having gone through all of the stages here, I too, find them very accurate. Way to go!
Bradley Bowden, CEO
Green Shield International
@OutsideMyBrain
March 30th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
As a “Twitter User”, I found this entry to be insightful and entertaining…though, what will my parents think when I tell them I’m a…*cough*…’User’?
Hopefully not for long.
Good work!
@davesniadak
March 31st, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Burning a cigar and laughing to myself – very well done!
@BingFutch
March 31st, 2009 at 9:10 pm
hahahahah DUDE! You are incredibly right! XD Im at like 1,040 and you explain how i am on twitter perfectly. XD HAHAH that was a great post!
March 31st, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Oh man I can only aspire to be a minor celebrtweet. Darn.
April 1st, 2009 at 12:52 am
thanks