{"id":3652,"date":"2011-03-05T23:59:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T06:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bspcn.com\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2011-03-06T03:10:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T10:10:03","slug":"50-signs-you-re-addicted-to-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/05\/50-signs-you-re-addicted-to-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Signs You\u2019re Addicted to Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Lauren Dugan<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to fall into the trap of spending an hour reading and writing tweets before you realize you just meant to log on to your email and respond to your boss. Twitter is an addictive social information machine, and we wouldn\u2019t be surprised if \u201cTwitter addiction\u201d becomes a verifiable condition. Think you might have a Twitter obsession? Here are 50 signs you\u2019re addicted to Twitter. If you nod in agreement to more than half of them, you might have a problem.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. You keep your Twitter client on your smartphone running by your bed, just so you can be notified of any @mentions while you sleep. <\/li>\n
  2. Every day you count your followers and compare it to the previous day\u2019s number to see how many new people are following you. <\/li>\n
  3. You become giddy if this number is higher than 5. <\/li>\n
  4. You\u2019ve tried every single Twitter client out there for the web and your smartphone, and ultimately decided to use a combination of about half a dozen to get as much juice out of Twitter as possible. <\/li>\n
  5. You can\u2019t wait for Twitter to auto-refresh, and do it manually. <\/li>\n
  6. When something exciting, funny, or strange happens to you, you immediately come up with a witty tweet about it and log it away until you\u2019re somewhere you can tweet. <\/li>\n
  7. Same as the last one, except you\u2019re never<\/em> without your smartphone with Twitter logged in so you can tweet your insights immediately. <\/li>\n
  8. Your anxiety flares up every time you see the Fail Whale. <\/li>\n
  9. You take your \u2018Droid in to the toilet with you to make sure you don\u2019t miss a single @mention while, um, doing your business. <\/li>\n
  10. You\u2019ve convinced your grandma to sign up for an account \u2013 but you spend more time tweeting on her behalf that she does. <\/li>\n
  11. You tweet about what you\u2019re eating, while you\u2019re eating it. <\/li>\n
  12. You begin using RT and @mentions in your emails and Facebook messages. <\/li>\n
  13. You update your Twitter more than your blog. <\/li>\n
  14. You have a stream in TweetDeck or HootSuite which shows all of your @mentions and your retweets, just so you can count them up. <\/li>\n
  15. All of your news comes from Twitter. <\/li>\n
  16. You\u2019ve created a Google Alert for your Twitter username. <\/li>\n
  17. When people ask you what you do, you say \u201cI tweet\u201d without skipping a beat. <\/li>\n
  18. You\u2019ve developed a list of 100+ idea that could make Twitter a better experience. <\/li>\n
  19. You follow every single #FollowFriday mention you see. <\/li>\n
  20. You\u2019ve set Twitter as your homepage. <\/li>\n
  21. You have at least one piece of Twitter bird jewelery. <\/li>\n
  22. You know you\u2019ve got to close Twitter.com to get any real work done, but just after you refresh your timeline one more time\u2026 <\/li>\n
  23. You\u2019ve met at least one of your followers in person. <\/li>\n
  24. You tweet while on vacation. <\/li>\n
  25. The first thing you check in the morning is always<\/em> Twitter. Not your email, not Facebook\u2026 Twitter. <\/li>\n
  26. You\u2019ve tweeted your thoughts about a movie while in the theater. <\/li>\n
  27. You tweet and drive. <\/li>\n
  28. You went to a Tweet Up and tried to speak in only 140-characters or less for the laughs. <\/li>\n
  29. When a big news story breaks, you log on to Twitter to see what your tweeps are saying about it before you discuss it with your friends or family. <\/li>\n
  30. If your favorite celebrity doesn\u2019t have a Twitter account, she\u2019s not your favorite celebrity anymore. <\/li>\n
  31. You tweet people who are in the same house as you. <\/li>\n
  32. You tweet people who are in the same room as you. <\/li>\n
  33. You\u2019re a URL shortener elitist, who scorns those not using the one you use. <\/li>\n
  34. You find yourself muttering \u201cI should tweet that\u201d under your breath on a daily basis. <\/li>\n
  35. Your Twitter name is on your business card. <\/li>\n
  36. You don\u2019t even have<\/em> a business card \u2013 if people can\u2019t find you on Twitter, they\u2019re not worth doing business with. <\/li>\n
  37. You\u2019ve tweeted about tweeting before. <\/li>\n
  38. You create hashtags that are ultra obscure and only you and a select group of your elite Twitter followers understand. <\/li>\n
  39. Twitter is the pillar of any multi-tasking you do. If you close your Twitter tab or client, you\u2019re done multi-tasking. <\/li>\n
  40. You\u2019ll go back through your Twitter timeline and read every. single. tweet. that you missed. <\/li>\n
  41. Your last waking thought every night this past week has been typed into a tweet and sent with the last twitch of your thumb before you passed out. <\/li>\n
  42. Since joining Twitter, you\u2019ve asked every new person you\u2019ve met what their Twitter username is. If they don\u2019t have one, you don\u2019t continue the conversation. <\/li>\n
  43. You feel seriously stressed if you can\u2019t come up with something insightful or witty to say about at least 5 trending topics a day. <\/li>\n
  44. Every so often you invent a new Twitter-related term and try to get it to take off. <\/li>\n
  45. You\u2019re never satisfied with the number of followers you have. <\/li>\n
  46. You share more emotions on Twitter than with your significant other. <\/li>\n
  47. You keep revising your Twitter bio to be more and more witty. <\/li>\n
  48. Every time you try to convince a friend you\u2019re not addicted to Twitter, they laugh. <\/li>\n
  49. Birds that \u201cchirp\u201d instead of \u201ctweet\u201d annoy you subconsciously. <\/li>\n
  50. You found this article on Twitter, and you\u2019ll share it on Twitter when you\u2019re done <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Bonus:Must See, new style of art. incredible<\/h3>\n