I’ve been thinking a lot about the different ways of interacting, or not, on Twitter this week, and I’ve come up with a rough list of types of engagement in Twitter conversations:

• Academic:  adds relevant academic references
• Networker: links to others/brings other tweeps into the conversation
• Self-publicist: always twists the conversation to talk about their work; provides links to their work over and over again
• Cheerleader: RTs with added positive comments about the original post
• Enthusiast: replies to say how great everybody and their ideas are
• Lurker: likes posts, might RT without added comment, but does not post
• Critic: disagrees, adds alternative points of view, but does so in a positive way*
• Troll: no need to define these*

What do you think? Do you recognise yourself or others in this categorisation? Ha:ve I missed out any personas you’d include?

* Thanks to Len for these two