A few years ago, in 2005, I did a post called Blog Taglines Experiment, which got the attention of BusinessWeek. It was a study of the slogans that bloggers wrote, generally located directly under or to the side of their blog title.
Now let's examine some interesting, funny, and brilliant Twitter bios -- that micro-content that Twitter users put in their sidebar as a brief description of who they think they are.
NOTE: Some have embedded URLs of their website or blog in their bios. Others use a blog tagline that has become legendary, and in good branding, do not change it. Then there are A Listers or industry giants who use the most silly thing they can think of, which I interpret as being humble and funny.
I think you'll love the sheer genius and goofiness, or modest professional brevity, of the Twitter community.
(1) monstro (Lane Becker) -- The person who inspired this study!
http://twitter.com/monstro
i disagree with everything you just said.
(2) Michael Arrington
http://twitter.com/techcrunch
Making the World a More Ajaxy Place
(3) Eve11 (Evelyn Rodriguez)
http://twitter.com/eve11
numinous poet myth maker fairytale fan dreamweaver art addict storydweller imaginatrix skipping to global Renaissance & golden age
(4) Chris Webb
http://twitter.com/chriswebb
Associate Publisher, John Wiley & Sons EMEA (UK) - Banging my head against a wall of old media
(5) NewMediaJim (Jim Long)
http://twitter.com/newmediajim
new media soul trapped in an old media body
(6) Scobleizer (Robert Scoble)
http://twitter.com/scobleizer
Tech geek blogger @ http://scobleizer.com
(7) Jeffrey Zeldman
http://twitter.com/zeldman
invented fire
(8) Gaping Void (Hugh McLeod)
http://twitter.com/gapingvoid
"cartoons drawn on the back of business cards"
(9) SpaceyG (Grayson)
http://twitter.com/spaceyg
Born to blog
(10) Creative Sage (Cathryn Hrudika)
http://twitter.com/CreativeSage
Creative Sage™ lives a passionate personal mission to cause the spontaneous combustion of creativity, innovation, and compassionate intelligence everywhere.
(11) Jeremiah Owyang
http://twitter.com/jowyang
Currently employed as Senior Analyst, Social Computing, Forrester Research | How I use Twitter http://tinyurl.com/24lv65
(12) Richard at DELL
http://twitter.com/RichardatDELL
member of Dell's digital media team
(13) Paul Walsh
http://twitter.com/PaulWalsh
The Irish Opportunist - Chair, British Interactive Media Association. Founder/CEO, Segala. Founder/CEO, wubud. Partner, Jaipur Restaurants.
(14) Chris Heur
http://twitter.com/chrisheuer
Social Media Club Founder, Market Conversations, New Marketing, Speaker, Social Media
(15) Charlene Li
http://twitter.com/charleneli
Forrester analyst
(16) Ariel Waldman
http://twitter.com/arielwaldman
http://arielwaldman.com/about
(17) Ev (Evan Williams)
http://twitter.com/ev
Co-founder and CPO of Twitter
(18) Queen of Spain (Erin Kotecki Vest)
http://twitter.com/QueenofSpain
Queenofspainblog, BlogHer, HuffPo, MOMocrats
(19) jiconoclast (Patrick Thornton)
http://twitter.com/jiconoclast
Journalist. Web developer. Blogger. Technology evangelist. Community builder. Knowledge seeker.
(20) abiteofsanity (Bryce Moore)
http://twitter.com/abiteofsanity
I'm a realistic idealist too often thinking in song lyrics while handling attack-trained OS X icons.
(21) jdasilva
http://twitter.com/jdasilva
Aspiring political journalist in a love affair with the internet.
(22) Chris Brogan
http://twitter.com/chrisbrogan
Social media type, but love the emerging enterprise tech space, too.
(23) DaveWiner
http://twitter.com/davewiner
media hacker
(24) dweinberger (David Weinberger)
http://twitter.com/dweinberger
I am fewer than 160 characters
(25) MrUgly
http://twitter.com/MrUgly
College student, writer, dreamer
(26) PaulCarr
http://twitter.com/paulcarr
I'm a writer. With all the baggage that entails.
(27) jspepper (Jeremy Pepper)
http://twitter.com/jspepper
Taking your lunch. Eating your cookies. PR Generalist.
THE (TEMPORARY) END.....
Okay, that's it for now. Part 2 coming tonight or tomorrow. DM or @ me at Twitter if you want to be included in this study.
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