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Thursday, 17 November 2011 14:35

Five popular twitters with more followers than famous people

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When talking about social networks one hears a lot of things: “Twitter is better than Facebook”, “Facebook´s security is not good enough”, “Twitter is for intellectuals and Facebook for gossips”, etc. Which shows how “tweets” and “likes” are constantly competing in web 2.0. Meanwhile the virtual world keeps wining millions of followers and we, the users, are forced to try and understand which is gaining more strength, if the hectic real world or the artificial digital one.

In this race against time, we can´t deny that even though Facebook was a social revolution in 2007, today, its stronger competitor, Twitter, is gaining more followers due to its simplicity and usability, as well as to the fact that it can generate content in a matter of seconds. But, how does it generate the content? What is the magic trick to win more followers? What is the kind of information that users want to re tweet? What makes a tweet attractive? These and many other questions revolve around the popularity of micro blogging.

 

It´s natural that accounts belonging to celebrities and political, artistic and sports figures have thousands of followers, however it´s interesting to see that users that don´t belong to any of these “select” circles achieve a similar or even larger amount of followers. This week´s Top 5 highlights five “not famous” twitters that have more than a thousand followers.

@ChicaSecretos: this twitter user keeps her time line updated with reflexive and existential phrases dedicated to love. She now has more than 285.955 followers. Without much show of intellectualism, her profile states the following “When you are about to forget me, someone with my perfume will pass you by”.

 

 

 

@laquesefue: she is considered a heretic of conventional communication and a nerd of social media. This twitter from Minneapolis, NY, has won over 16.655 followers due to a strange mix of more than 55 thousand personal, funny, interesting and informative tweets and an avatar that can say a lot or nothing about Rosaura Ochoa.

 

 

 

@soymuyaburrido: this twitter user has more than 14.725 followers and more than 16 thousand tweets in which he ironically expresses improbable situations and phrases like “Looking for a human being fit to become a blanket”, which let his creativity show.




@malalajime: nominated as “Best social geek” in the TWCO Awards 2011, community manager Maria Jimenez has won over 13.742 followers thanks to her affinity with social media and her constant update of news and information related to technology and the world of social networks. Her 12 thousand tweets support what´s expressed on her profile, “a true lover of social networks and Harry Potter”.

 

 

 

@Sr_Tourette: Mother ship defines himself like this: “a multiple personality guy…or at least that’s what each and every one of them says”. He sums up his profile in 12 words that say a lot and nothing at the same time, which doesn´t seem to be a problem for his 10.843 followers. His 14 thousand funny and out of the ordinary tweets have won him more followers than some celebrities.
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