We tweet, They tweet

The night before last, I randomly started a hashtag from my Twitter handle: #tweetslike. At the end of the hashtag I inserted a handle of the people on Twitter I interact with. It was originally meant to poke light fun at the tweeting styles of certain people on the popular social networking but ended up with me getting quite a lot of requests from my Twitter friends asking me to mimic them! So, I felt like someone doing a live-standup on Twitter by using my limted powers of observation to imitate Twitter users. In short, it was Twitter's equivalent of a mimicry artist doing his take on celebrities (ok, pun intended) and looking at Twitterwood through his eyes. It was one of those rare moments (aka gloat moment for me) when people loved to laugh at themselves. Ok enough introduction. Here goes the content of the timeline, with some additions and my own Twitter bios of the people I mimicked.

1. @venkatananth: The man who combines the abilities of Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar and P Chidambaram. Well, seriously I'm yet to come across a more well-read person at his age. A tweet from him would typically read as: 'Mate <insert fact which was unknown for 200 years>'.

2. @gkhamba: The tall Sardar from the Capital city whose tongue is firmly in his invisible turban and who, I'm sure, is secretly advising Manmohan Singh to win one at least one Lok Sabha before he takes the ticket to heaven. Be sure its his tweet when it reads like: 'Arindam Chowdhury/Chetan Bhagat/Uday Chopraa/Arnab Goswami visited my blog. <insert Delhi/Punjab joke>

3. @daddysan: The man from across the Vindhyas who is on a secret mission in the US of A to convince Obama to have a Maratha Manoos special operations cell in the US Army. His tweet would typically be: '<insert US state name> is a LOL factor. Oh well.'

4. @OldMonkMGM: The man will make sure Bengalis colonise the Moon, or Neptune for that matter, someday. Also, he can single-handedly take on Rajnikanth and Chuck Norris with his meme generating machines and YouTube music links. A sample tweet from him: Gahahahah. Epic! <insert CSI meme/YouTube link> and an optional Bengali word.'

5. @GabbbarSingh: Apart from reinventing Ramgarh on the interwebs, this man redefines humour like anything with his straight-face jokes and wordplay. A tweet from him would read like: You are what you are <insert stupendous wordplay>

6. @rameshsrivats: Another wordmeister who has an arsenal (Gunners take note) of reverse-scrabbled words with him. His sample tweet: 'I say we have a <insert wordplay>, no?'

7. @diogeneb: Anagram Anna is what I call him. When the Oxford dictionary disposes, he proposes with his splendid anagrams, with a tweet like: 'Sir,<insert anagram> <insert celebrity name>'

8. @bhalomanush: A member of the sporadic diaspora of the Bengalis. He is a bio scientist by day and a superhero by night, saving the interwebs from the attack of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates with his office humour and refreshing take on NRI as well as native Bengalis. Sample a tweet from him: The office sign says <insert Dilbert joke in reverse>

9. @i_r_squared: The leader of the Sambhar Shosannas in the US academic world who will make sure the Amits there will not have huge orgies with their butter chickens so easily. A tweet from him is a bit tough to decipher thought, hence '<insert joke which I am trying to figure out since the last 10 days>

10. @cgawker: Had it not been fro him, I would have never known what (or watt) a 'bulb' is. Again, he is a master of cryptic tweets, like '<insert joke which I may figure out before I die>

11. @krishashok: Master of binary and non-binary satire, an example of his Twitter updates: 'Here I am <insert witty jetlagged comment> checking out the work <insert an entity to bash>'

12. @abhishekmadan: Another wordplay genius who can write his own thesis, with tweets like 'They are a bunch of <insert splendid wordplay>'

13. @Unnamedentity: He is determined to spell English as Hsilgne or so I think. Hence, a tweet from him: 'Funda! <insert his own Yodaspeak/Esperanto>'

14. @WoMod: A chirpy and bubbly woman who never fails to enjoy every moment of life. Sample a tweet from her: '<insert fun philosophy> <insert emoticon>'

15. @DevilOnBunk: One of my Twitter gangmates from whom even a slap will feel good, well yeah. When he is missing on the timeline, the world of the 140 looks so weird. A typical tweet from him: 'Abeyaar/Bhug <insert another cuss word>

16. @hautesaiff: An ace photographer and a very 'haute' person indeed. A tweet from him: 'Yeh kya ho raha hai? LOL'

17. @Desdemona14: Madam D, who does not seem to get a shut eye unless a fail whale strikes Twitter. Also a good friend online. She loves to say: Kya hai? Ha ha ha #drama'

18. @ImpsMom: Another one of my earliest Twitter friends and the mother of a lovely Imp. As soon as you read 'Hiya how's you?' be sure its her tweet.

19. @ikaveri: Nothing less than the Superwoman of Twitter, who loves to tweet like: '*fooooooooooooop* <insert Twitpic in next tweet> *pooooooooooof*'

20. @Jhunjhunwala: The richest man in the universe indeed, who never fails to say '3...2...1 out'

21. @bitchwanti: Queen Yoda, who never misses a moment to tickle your irritation nerve with tweets like 'Anger shall ensue, BURN!'

22. @oneblackcoffee:Cellphone cannot be cellphones unless she tells you so. also, it would be not odd to see a tweet from her like: 'Clearly ,insert rant about weaher/work> Meh :|'

23. @ScarletOhHara: I never knew Nemi existed until I met her on Twitter, since she is blessed with the power of baking a cake ina washing machine. also, you will be certain it is her tweet when it reads like: 'Did you see what happened in the <insert crappy TV show name>?'

24. @raggedtag: Arundhati Roy, beware of her as she would ove to say: 'What about India? <insert link to article in high-profile journal>'

25. @dharmeshG: He has three reservoirs on his body to store the following: beer, beer and beer, apart from movies and Tv shows. Make no mistake that it his tweet when it reads: Epic <insert YouTube link> must watch trailer'

26. @69fubar: Geniuses are in varied forms, like this man - who can actually (yes) solve a Rubik;s Cube blindfolded. Also, he would typically say: "I aintno shit tweet I aint no retweet.'

27. @punkster101: A natural charmer this young man, with his lovable tweets like: '<insert tremendous philosophy> Gah'

28. @SiddharthPatel:A true social media junky, connects with Twittterati at ease. So, his tweet would be: '36 greatest tharkis of the world <insert Twitter celen handle> RT'

29. @PsychoMaan: The wonderful young photographer that he is, at his age I did not even know what an SLr camera was. his tweet: 'Crooked Smile <insert link to photo> <insert 101 handle>

30. @OyeMaria: The self-proclaimed male basher who never fails to entertain as well. So a typical tweet from her <insert male bashing joke> !!!'

31. @mehrzee: The queen of perky tweets, loves to post 'Goti <insert perky tweet>'

32. @Decloned_Taz: God decided to give her me a telepathic connect of headaches, so I would not blame the poor thing when she says: I will @TheHumerus for giving me a headache'

33. @preetidhingra: The self-confessed hot Punjabi who loves her music and vodka, and keeps on asking: 'What would you sing for your friend's birthday? suggestions welcome'

34. @ConfuseusSay: Loves his music also, as well as hi hookahs also: 'Hookah has been had. Bliss.'

35. @TorqueAddict: Who says a can of beer does not have its own algorithm? Ask Him, and he would tell you: 'Drunk I am, not'

36. @SparklingGuy: This entrepreneur from Sadi Dilli creates magic on his website and then says: :We have created an infographic. RT and share link please. Thanks'

37. @ruhiseth: A fellow citizen of the City of Joy, she makes us smile with her dotted line tweets: '......DP changed....'

38. @blackrosegal: Another adorable fellow citizen of the City of Joy, makes me smile with her randomness: 'I'm playing Hitman. aaaaa'

39. @abhijitdg: Ace journalist and someone who has been kicking the bottle and the stick since the British left India, his straight face sense of humour never fails to amaze me: 'I'm bored. Entertain me, please'

40. @Ipsita_Shome: Ban-ki Moon who? Make this lady the in-charge at UN I say. No wonder you would find her saying: 'And oh before I retire with my book <insert link to bomb blast in Uzbekistan> shalom'

41. @Nishad_M: My Marathi teacher and a genuine human being in every sense of the term. Loves to say: 'Hello friends, getting ready for work'

42. @isanzc: A master of wordplay in the Bengali language: '<insert Bengali wordplay> LOL!!'

43. @ShwetaKapur: A bright young journalist who brings random smiles with her <insert tremendously random statement> tweets

I could go on and on, but I know that while reading this, you have kept your work (even if its tying the left shoelace) for too long. And besides, this list has 43 names. Think about it (ok?)

If you think this was an indirect to pimp certain Twitter handles, my third purpose would have been served (the other two I'm still trying to figure out of course).

(PS: Names are not in any order of preference)