10 Signs that You’re Addicted to Twitter

You care more about the number of followers you have compared to your Technorati Authority ranking. (You just wish that you’d make it to the Twitterholic Top 100 by the end of the year.)
When writing an email, you mistakenly type @(Your Twitter-buddy’s screen name) instead of @gmail.com.
Twitter becomes your main mode of replying to your girlfriend’s SMS. (After you beg her to sign up for an account)
You play Wordy Birdie and Tweet140 instead of going over to Jack’s place for Friday Night Poker.
You start to feel like you’ve known people like Robert Scoble, Guy Kawasaki and Chris Brogan for years.
Your whole life is broadcast on Twitter - from what you eat, your proposal and your dirty little secrets. Private life no more.
You prefer to read Twitter updates from events like MacWorld rather than watch Steve Jobs do his magic on stage.
The planning for this summer’s backpacking trip is done through Twittervision and Twitter Atlas. Goodbye TripAdvisor.
Every sentence that comes out of your mouth contains less than 140 characters.
After reading this blog entry, you copy and paste the url to TinyUrl or Snurl and share it via your preferred Twitter desktop app.

13 Responses to “10 Signs that You’re Addicted to Twitter”

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1 Daryl Tay March 31, 2008 at 1:29 am

Yes to #1, #2, #5, #8 and #10!
2 Andre March 31, 2008 at 1:35 am

@Daryl Tay: I was bored.
3 Anne March 31, 2008 at 1:24 pm

“You start to feel like you’ve known people like Michael Scoble, Guy Kawasaki and Chris Brogan for years.” LOL@that. And #11 might add…you look long and profoundly at your blog and consider dissolving it. [But don't do that, you have interesting stuff on here :)]
4 Andre March 31, 2008 at 2:20 pm

@Anne: Thanks for dropping by and for #11! and yes, i think people have been blogging less ever since they signed up on Twitter
5 amsiewong March 31, 2008 at 2:34 pm

wahahaha I feel so nerdish now, i’m addictd to twitter too…
geek alert! (I quote the author of this blog here)
6 Andre March 31, 2008 at 3:35 pm

@amsiewong: haha welcome to the club! oh, and it’s ‘geek overload’, not ‘geek alert’. hehe
7 amsiewong April 1, 2008 at 12:10 am

@Andre oh, sorry! heh…
8 LaVeda H. Mason April 9, 2008 at 12:07 am

I only hit 4 out of 10, but I can see which way the wind is blowing… What about setting up your cellphone on Twitter so that you can access Twitter bots on the fly?
9 pixites April 9, 2008 at 2:37 am

michael scoble? Who?
10 Hawksdomain April 9, 2008 at 2:37 am

It’s official…. I am a geek….
11 Ontario Emperor April 9, 2008 at 2:49 am

I found this post via FriendFeed. Perhaps it’s time for a followup addiction.

P.S. Michael Scoble?
12 Andre April 9, 2008 at 6:33 pm

@LaVeda H. Mason: Yeah i used to use Twitter on my cellphone, but then i stopped receiving the updates. maybe it’s my service provider. can’t wait to get a wifi-enabled phone.

@pixites: oops! typo on my part. Sorry. thanks for pointing it out.

@Hawksdomain: geeks rule!

@Ontario Emperor: thanks to you too for pointing out the error. supposed to be Robert Scoble. eek!