{"id":1110,"date":"2015-03-30T14:52:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T09:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.officechai.com\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2015-12-20T10:32:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T05:02:43","slug":"twitter-celebs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officechai.com\/stories\/twitter-celebs\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Favourite Twitter Celebrities Have a Real Job (And no, it’s not tweeting)"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Twitter, a parallel world where users\u00a0belt out rapid 140 character updates for the world to see, there’s a class of people that\u00a0really stands out. It’s not the Bollywood jet set\u00a0or the cricket stars. It’s common, everyday folk who have no real claim to fame other than being twitter celebrities. With their multi thousand follower counts, \u00a0they have informed, entertained and regaled you over the years.\u00a0Their tweets make it regularly on your timeline, retweeted by their dedicated and large fan followings, and\u00a0help shape public opinion on the internet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But behind all the jokes\u00a0and the thought-provoking titbits that\u00a0stream from these nameless, faceless entities, lie real human beings, with jobs and careers. Outside of their twitter existence, they lead normal, successful lives,\u00a0and go to office like us normal folk. While the frequency of their tweets might cause you to think otherwise,\u00a0tweeting isn’t really a full time job.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a never done before feature, we bring you 12 of Twitter India’s most popular names, or rather, handles, and reveal their real lives and jobs, and their thoughts on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n

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1. RoflIndian<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"@roflindian\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“Amateur humorist, blogger, medic. Loves to click, cook and travel. Generally interested in all things wild.” says his bio.<\/span><\/p>\n

As his bio reveals, @roflindian is Sudipto Chakravarty, a medical doctor in practice, who\u00a0usually tweets about politics, culture and cricket and also enjoys sharing funny tidbits from his personal experience as a medical professional. Not only have his tweets gone viral, but Big B has even shared some of his sketches on his page. Yes, when he’s not saving lives or tweeting about the laughable affairs of the country, Sudipto is doodling a mean sketch or two.<\/span><\/p>\n

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2. Trendulkar<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Probably a twitter personality only next to the God himself in popularity, Trendulkar has bowled you over with the funnies with\u00a0his cricket<\/a><\/span> tweets. But behind this famous Sachin caricature, is the charmed life of Apoorv Sood. A BITS Pilani engineer who’s had a stint in merchant navy and “has traveled the world by 22”, he is now on his way to stepping into the corporate world. Currently studying at a B school, Apoorv will soon be joining an ecommerce biggie in its marketing dept.<\/span><\/p>\n

And other than a deluge of RTs on most of his tweets, Apoorv’s other twitter achievements include winning a car in an influencer activity run by\u00a0Tata Motors.<\/span><\/p>\n

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3.Ghaatidancer<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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She’s charmed you and had you warm up to her with her honest tweets, her curation of art across the world and her stand on social issues. Ghaati Ninja is Mumbai’s girl next door Anisha Sharma. She studied broadcast journalism in the UK \u00a0at the University of Sheffield and now spends the better part of her day writing\u00a0and helping friends in their ventures. \u00a0She also\u00a0runs a digital film production startup<\/a> <\/span>called owlbythewindow.com<\/a>\u00a0that makes films for brands.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Having the number of followers I do comes in really handy when I’m looking to find people to work with, an interesting story or even create a database of talented people in Mumbai, and across the country”, s<\/em>he says when asked if having a large following on Twitter helps with work.<\/span><\/p>\n

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4.Vivekisms<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"@vivekisms\"<\/p>\n

You know Viveskms as the guy who always tweets about books (and as one of the few remaining real book readers). Not surprisingly, Vivek works at Flipkart, Bangalore as Customer Engagement Manager for Books! Vivek was the brain behind the 55-word stories on his blog<\/a>, and is today one of the most known people on Twitter India, due to his heart warming tweets on love, reading and LGBT rights.<\/span><\/p>\n

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5.AskthePankazzz<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Everyone’s favourite funny boy next door, with a dedicated fan following. But behind all the LOLworthy tweets,<\/a> there’s 25 year old Pankaj Sinha, an IIT-Roorkee engineer, working as a senior design analyst at Pininfarina\u00a0who joined Twitter out of boredom and today uses it to “crib all day”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Does he tweet at work? “Yes. I talk to internet people so that I dont have to talk to people at work. Helps a lot. Everyone should try. Twitter is like therapy. It’s just that your therapists there also need therapy”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Told you.<\/span><\/p>\n

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6. Shaktishetty<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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“28| engineering-dropout-out-of-choice| philosourpher| antiwordist| pseudofunny| former poet| ex-journo| lazy human| lazier blogger| YNWA| opinionated| marketeam”<\/em>– we knew this much from his bio, but when we contacted Shakti for this feature, we were prepared to not get a reply.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, to our surprise Shakti replied and how. One of the most iconic personalities on Indian twitter, Shakti is famous for his quick, one line witticisms, and NEVER replying on a tweet!<\/span><\/p>\n

So imagine our surprise when we got to know that Shakti works at Zomato, Gurgaon as a communications specialist \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n

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7. Bwoyblunder<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"gaurav<\/p>\n

Another mystery with multi thousand followers on twitter, Bwoy Blunder is Gaurav, who’s a chartered accountant in practice!<\/span><\/p>\n

For someone with 20K+ followers, Gaurav is also actually quite the introvert and feels comfortable opening up only to a select few.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, on the professional front, Gaurav has taken his super successful tweeting career about current affairs, news and cricket to another level. Along with a few others, he’s started opindia.com, where his piece on Praveen Swami and Terror Boat theory<\/a><\/span>\u00a0became huge. “Mentions\u00a0were so crazy I had to go offline for a while for everything to settle down”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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8. 14_yr_old_etard<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A household name on twitter, known more commonly\u00a0as etard, \u00a0Srinivas Rao wanted to start an eatery and joined Twitter to know what was up. “I got so addicted and spent so much time\u00a0<\/em>tweeting that i never opened that eatery” <\/em>While the restaurant may not have materialised, today Shrinivas Rao works as an Account Manager in a Pune based digital agency called Xebec.<\/span><\/p>\n

Does twitter help at work?<\/span><\/p>\n

“It also helps connect with influencers, bloggers, or even organizations and even get them in touch with\u00a0clients for a campaign or activation. Apart from that I have met a lot of like-minded people via twitter,\u00a0some of them have even become close friends. Only a matter of time before I land a job via a twitter DM”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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9. Udaaspriest<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

His tweets are loud, dark,\u00a0and the kinds that’d get you lynched.<\/span><\/p>\n

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i request all muslims to donate me foreskins of their kids after circumcision so i can sew them up and make a nice warm blanket for myself.<\/p>\n

— priest (@UdaasPriest) March 22, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n