Comments on: How to Identify a Narcissist on Twitter

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:35:16 +0000

Indeed, the author is not complaining. Perhaps you’re the petty one?

By: Melanie

Melanie — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:30:55 +0000

I personally know a fairly famous narcissistic musician. On his twitter, he actually @ responds to quite a few of his fans but usually it’s with an ulterior motive to gain more follwers, more compliments…etc. He only @ comments to people who give him outlandish compliments about how wonderful and perfect he is and then he’ll respond or say ‘thank you’ but it’s only because he LIVES to hear these kind of compliments. He’ll also retweet any positive comments about himself or his music. True narcissists put on a ‘facade/act’ to the public which is why they’re sometimes tricky to spot. They don’t necessarily always act stereotypical. They like to pretend to be humble and wonderful so some narcissists will respond to people/fans if they know other people are watching and that it will make them look good.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:45:03 +0000

That’s interesting; I’m always thinking that I’m seeing little sneak peeks of who people WANT to be on Twitter, not they’re real selves. Have you ever read your own Twitter stream and thought, “Is that really me? Is that how I come across?!” . . .It’s an interesting little exercise!

By: Ross Hudgens

Ross Hudgens — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:59:18 +0000

Let people be people. But still, they can be narcissistic within it. Doesn’t mean I have to love it. I can like 90% of someone’s tweets but if they bleep thrashing narcissism the other 10% I’ll hang in with them. I just have a little frown on in the meantime!

By: Ross Hudgens

Ross Hudgens — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:57:24 +0000

If someone sends me an auto-DM, that just makes me put them on the “ignore” list. I put the narcissist list above the ignore list, because at least they’ve got some personality to show me.

By: Ross Hudgens

Ross Hudgens — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:56:31 +0000

Ha. You noticed though! I didn’t even know Hugh had a Twitter, and in a way, I don’t believe it. He’s really old.. normally old people can’t gather themselves to have a Twitter. But I guess the lingering attention is worth it!

By: Ross Hudgens

Ross Hudgens — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:55:15 +0000

We get to see the real side of people in little splices I don’t think show up elsewhere. When we tweet 30000 times, it’s pretty tough to not get an accurate picture of what someone is like, at least in one portion of their life. It can be a lot tougher in other realms.

By: Ross Hudgens

Ross Hudgens — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:53:41 +0000

Thanks Paula, I like how you branded yourself. Cool play/addon to a name!

By: Career Voyager

Career Voyager — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:24:17 +0000

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If you want a lot of followers on Twitter, you must follow most everybody who follows you unless you are a celebrity or so amazingly unique and phenomenal that people can’t bear to unfollow you when they are unfollowing those that don’t follow them. This has to be done when people reach following limits of 2001 and are not followed by enough. Once you reach 2001, you can only follow 10% more than the amount of your followers.

However, If you only want to use Twitter to see what certain people or media Tweets, then just follow a small number.

Otherwise, use lists, and apps or downloads like Tweetdeck to keep track of certain Tweeters, and visit the pages of your favorites to see what they have Tweeted.

It’s your Twitter, use it any way that works best for what you want from it.

By: P

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:49:10 +0000

I personally don’t agree with this. If you have time to care about what other people do with their Twitters I think you need to find a hobby away from a computer. If they choose not to follow people there must be a reason for it. I personally find there’s too much business and quotations in which I am not interested in. To me real people will talk about things you can relate to (jokes, funny moments, things they see..ect..) in every day lives not just what they accomplish business wise, can find a good quote and tweet it 100 + times a day or how many followers they have. I personally think if you’re on twitter for those purposes you sound boring and generic. Business is a part of the world yes, but judging people by their Twitter page because they are using the tool differently doesn’t exactly qualify you as a person I’d want to follow… I tend to delete those that only tweet the above three examples I gave… We all use tools differently, I think we just need to accept and let that go.