Those without Twitter. They're normal.
Those who have an account but seldom use it except when there's something they want twits to see. (Or is that "tweeters"? No matter.)
Those who use it constantly, and confuse Twitter-realm with the world. If it's on Twitter, it's important; if you're on Twitter, you're important. What's on Twitter must be right. Twitter assumes outsized importance for people who are constant users, much like Instagram does for a lot of teens. Twitter has something like 17 million active users (Twitter likes to say that a truly impressive percentage of people have accounts and are "users"; I have an active account and checked it last perhaps a month ago. I'm not alone.
My school district sends out alerts by Twitter. And is repeatedly slammed by parents for not communicating with them. "But everybody uses Twitter!" No, the school district has a "social media" person because the top administration uses it and requires that the rest of the administration uses it. At trainings teachers are told they *will* sign up for it, and we're walked through the process. Then most of us ignore it for the rest of the year, to a refrain of, "Why don't you know this? You have a Twitter feed, don't you?"
I'd prefer that they confiscate my elected official's cell phones upon swearing it and give them pagers instead, returning their cell phones as their replacements are sworn in. It would reduce the level of sycophancy for low-ranking ones, narcissism overall, and reduce sharply the ease with which politicians make themselves into utter asses and easily breach both protocol and security.
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