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Meg Pickard analyzes Twitter usage including this categorization of users:

• The Briefers, who provide only bulletins relating to current location or status. Example: Waiting for the bus. Cold.
• The Detailers, who use Twitter to give an insight into what they’re thinking, eating, listening to, looking forward to, planning, and so on. Example: Wondering what to have for tea tonight. Pasta, maybe.
• The Kitchen Sinkers, who use Twitter as a new form of blogging, recording thoughts and links and opinions and ideas, addressed to no-one in particular. Example: Traffic lights broken at the corner of high street. Phoned work and told them I’ll be late. That’s the fourth time this week. Sigh.
• The Pongers, who respond publically to other users whose updates they are receiving via Twitter (so called because they return each IM ping with a pong). Example: @Jim: Hahaha! Yes!

I’m not the best at analyzing my own behavior, but it looks like I’m 50% briefer, 40% detailer, 5% kitchen sinker and 5% ponger.

(Via Biz at the Twitter Blog)

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