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16 ways to know you are addicted to Twitter

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  1. You received a tiny URL to this list via Twit­ter. And links to the other n lists of “How do you know when you are addicted to Twit­ter” via Twitter.
  2. You have re-followed @ev just to send him dm’s about fea­tures that were once in twit­ter, and have disappeared.
  3. Without think­ing twice, you grok #2.
  4. Before a con­fer­ence or meet­ing, you stress about which #hashtag to use
  5. When meet­ing people IRL (real-life) you imme­di­ately start talk­ing to them where their twit­ters left off. “So, is your part­ner out of hos­pital now?”
  6. Your avatar based on your mood, sea­son, latest craze or just ran­dom stuff. Never a nor­mal pic­ture of yourself.
  7. Of the 400-odd twit­ter cli­ent applic­a­tions, noth­ing really works the way you want it to.
  8. There is a twit­ter cli­ent, or at least http://m.twitter.com/ book­marked in all your internet-enabled devices.
  9. You have twittered whilst over caf­fein­ated, intox­ic­ated or medicated.
  10. After friends make fun of you on twit­ter, you have regret­ted #9. But now you are a dead-set legend for a few days on twit­ter, so it all works out.
  11. Each day, you speak to more twit­ter friends than IRL friends. In fact, you would con­sider your twit­ter friends as real friends, any­way.
  12. Twit­ter­ing is the first thing you do before call­ing, writ­ing or speak­ing to someone after a life-event.
  13. Before going to a news web site (or let alone the TV), you jump onto twit­ter to see what is going on.
  14. You lose con­cen­tra­tion after 140 char­ac­ters of a sen­tence. In fact, you miss the char­ac­ter count when typ­ing blogs or emails.
  15. Rather than email­ing a work-colleague, you dm them a link. To a twit­ter message.
  16. You will retweet this link almost as second nature.

Written by Nick Hodge

December 29th, 2008 at 4:03 pm

Posted in twitter