They also tend to reply to only women the most prolific reply guys fill the role for dozens of women trying to tweet in peace. Their responses are overly familiar, as if they know the person they're targeting, though they usually don't. In general, reply guys tend to have few followers. These men are colloquially known as 'reply guys.' While no reply guy is the same - each reply guy is annoying in his own way - there are a few common qualities to watch out for. A lot of people, mostly women, have noticed that one or two men always, no matter what, reply to their tweets. On Twitter, a place where a lot of bad things happen, there's a mostly harmless but decidedly annoying phenomenon.
This piece is part of an ongoing series exploring what it means to be a woman on the internet.
