1. [General Irritants] Follow you, in the hope that you will be a nice guy and follow them back. They will lurk in the shadows till you follow them, and after that, do #2 or #3 below, depending on who they are.
2. [Commercial Bots] Do #1 above, and then spam you with links to their web-sites. Zero updates (or maybe one update), following lots of people but few followers. No, I don't want to see your naughty pics at http://tinyurl.porn
3. [Arrogant Pompous Twits] Do #1 above, and then un-follow you. Such twits are collecting followers - they don't care about you or your tweets. This is like someone attempting to shake your hand and then withdrawing it just when you extend yours.
4. [General Irritants] Use hash-tags and keywords liberally, hoping to get noticed at a topic search on a hot topic, so as to attract more followers. Their tweets make no sense and/or are of no relevance to you. #FAIL
5. [Hashtag Stalkers] Continuously monitor their hashtag searches and swoop on new members (who used a keyword of interest to the twit) and follow them (go to #1)
6. [Arrogant Pompous Twits] Broadcast their travel schedule and who they're meeting, when and where. Lots of name-dropping. Like I care who you're having breakfast with at the Grand Hyatt in Guangzhou tomorrow morning.
7. [Sports (Over)Enthusiasts] Tweet you a real-time stream of their expert comments on the state of play in the current hot sports event. Dude - if I gave a rat's ass, I would be watching it myself. (Note: Some of these could be your friends, in which case you should learn to use filters!)
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