Collection of curious Twitter bios.

1. “If you are reading this you’re bio curious.”

3. I find Twitter bios curious.
This is a collection of curious bios that I’ve
stumbled upon in the line of duty over a period
of 18 months or so.

4. “If I could summarise myself in a sentence, I would.”

6. Summarising yourself in a sentence is
one thing.
Doing so in such a way as to pique the
reader’s curiosity is quite another.

9. Have I got my views for you?

10. “All views my own” and variations on that
theme is a familiar Twitter bio convention.
And familiarity breeds curiously
contemptuous bastardisations of that
convention.

15. Smug strategy cockbags?

16. Twitter has more than its fair share of
genuine, bona fide, smug strategy cockbags.
The curious thing is that quite a few seem to
have amassed large numbers of followers.

17. Fortunately and more curiously, those
real-deal smug strategy cockbags have
spawned just as many smug strategy
cockbag parody bios.

23. Oh this old thing? I made it myself.

24. Curious and cool is tough to pull off in a
Twitter bio. The margin for error is small.
It’s the social media equivalent of trying
ever so hard to make it look like you
haven’t made an effort with the clothes that
you’re wearing.
The secret, it would seem, is total
randomness.

36. Tell us a little bit about yourself.

37. How many Twitter bios really tell you
anything revealing (and therefore curious)
about the person or organisation behind
them?

38. A bio is not a biography. It’s a personal ad.
The best bios are edited highlights of the
whole truth, well told.

46. @Phil_Adams for @blondedigital