29 Warning Signs of Twitter Addiction
May 25th, 2009
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Guest article by Venkat.
Are you addicted to Twitter? Twitter is the popular micro blogging platform which allows you to send messages (tweets) to your friends, relatives and followers.You can send tweets to your followers with text upto 140 characters. As Twitter has got really popular, there are people spending all day over twitter with signs of twitter addiction.
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Warning signs of Twitter Addiction
You are warned that you are addicted to Twitter when
You…
- Get excited when some one follows you on Twitter.
- Feel the end of the world when twitter gets an outage.
- Send @ and RT in messages to your friends in emails.
- Beg your blog readers to follow you on twitter, then beg your Twitter followers to Retweet the tweet.
- Post more tweets than blog posts, and turn from full time blogger to full time tweeter.
- Spend all day on twitter giving yourself the excuse that you are doing great service to your followers, and bunk going to office.
- Tweet on Twitter more than doing office work.
- Feel over the Moon and on top of the world when some one retweets your tweet
- Keep searching for your twitter name and your tweets in real time twitter search.
- Keep refreshing the twitter page every second for new tweets.
- Include your twitter profile in your Gmail signature instead of your blog
- Print your twitter id on business cards.
- Set Twitter as your browser home page.
- Add notice in front of office door – “I am on Twitter, Don’t disturb”.
- Use more than 5 twitter clients.
- Add your twitter name to Google alerts to know what others are speaking about you.
- Blog more about twitter applications.
- Add your status message as “Follow me on twitter” to Gtalk and yahoo messenger
- Use Twoogle to search in Google and Twitter.
- Keep urging your family members to get a twitter account.
- Follow lot of people on #FollowFriday
- Introduce yourself to new persons more as a tweeter than as a businessman.
- Go crazy about twitter and advertise on news papers, TV and distribute pamphlets to follow you on twitter.
- Ask your bosses wife to follow you on twitter!
- Add your twitter id to the nameplate of your house.
- Keep sending SMS to all your friends to follow you on twitter.
- Ask questions about Twitter rather than job related queries during interviews.
- Threaten your wife to get a twitter account and follow you, or warn her of divorce
- Only wear dresses with twitter logos.
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Good post, and here’s 75 ways you can use twitter in your business…
1. To promote your worthwhile cause/favourite charity on justgiving.com
2. To point people to the latest copy of your newsletter
3. To promote your internet radio show on blogtalkradio.com
4. To tell people of your event on eventbrite.com
5. To send out an updated price list to clients & prospects
6. To share your powerpoint presentation on slideshare.net
7. To ask for referrals
8. To qualify prospects
9. To tell people about your latest press release on prfree.com
10 To promote your latest article on ezinearticles.com
11. To get eyeballs on to your ad on ebay
12. To Share some useful tips about your services
13. To get signups for your workshops and seminars
14. To conduct market research
15. To promote your latest podcast
16. To share your seminar talk on slideserve.com
17. To give your feedback of software you just bought
18. To conduct marketing research
19. To show the latest thread on your blog (twitterfeed)
20. To point them to your press release on PRWeb.com
21. To get eyeballs on to your squidoo.com lens
22. To get people to book on your workshop via regonline.com
23. To position yourself as an expert
24. To get new members to your clubs on groups.google.com & groups.yahoo.com
25. To promote your articles on goarticles.com
26. To increase response to your base.google.com ads
27. To tell people about onlywire.com
28. To share your white paper on scribd.com
29. To launch your new premium service
30. To tell people you’re going on holiday
31. As a way to promote your products online
32. To promote your latest video on You Tube
33. To promote your ad on oodle.com
34. To allow people to download a trial version of your software
35. To promote your latest job vacancies
36. To find out what latest job vacancies are out there
37. Share some useful tips about your products
38. To promote your latest photographs on flickr
39. To get comments onto your blog
40. To share an important fact form wickipedia.org
41. To give referrals
42. To help others generate traffic via trafficswarm
43. To show your demo video on video.google.com
44. To show people your trial software on download.com
45. To boost morale
46. To create mutual opportunity for friends
47. To simplify/improve your customer service and support
48. Tto tell people about theresultsacademy.com
49. To promote your new membership site on ning.com
50. To promote your latest book
51. To help with recruitment for your MLM Opportunity
52. To remind people of your terms and conditions
53. To tell people how to create a mobile website with mofuse.com
54. To give people a google map url on how to find you
55. To direct people to your ezine sign up page
56. To get people to vote for you at dig.com
57. To collect case studies
58. To get people to sign up to your webinar at gotowebinar.com
59. To share customer testimonials
60. To run a poll or survey using surveymonkey.com
61. To advise others of bad payers / bad debtors
62. To point people to your latest article on Business-Scene.com
63. To tell people about ping.fm
64. To tell people about your new listing on reddit.com
65. to tell others what the best sellers on ebay are
66. to link to your ads on Friday-ad.co.uk
67. to encourage others to subscribe to your group on facebook.com
68. To share financial market info from http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/
69. To ask for ideas, suggestions and recommendations for new products
70. To share a Spreadsheet via Google Docs
71. To Tell people how to book on your next webinar
72. To share your diary and get your appointments booked up
73. To give your feedback of a workshop or seminar you attended
74. To demonstrate to journalists how responsive your network can be
75. To say thank you to people you care about.
Hope it helps.
OMG im freaking addicted to twitter!!!!! Noooooooo
oh by the way follow me on twitter ;) lol
I have actually done number 3 !!!! Actually done it. PS: pity the list was so obviously written by a man :)
@roku6wiz
some guys are addicted to twitter and some not thanks for your comment
@jen
Lot of people are used tweeting with @,RT in twitter that’y they are carried on to email messages as well.
haha well said
just simply the #1 on the list can determine if you are addicted to twitter or not :)
and yet follow me on twitter @jonathanhu
@jonathan
one can identify one where others may found multiple from above list to identify themselves as twitter addicters.
My opinion is that Twitter is nothing more than a cyber herd movement with a lesser purpose than facebook or multiply.
A site that is built around one question, “What are you doing?” is potentially one of the most clever creations, but it seems to be geared towards people without important things to do except update the world on their whereabouts.
While cyber technology continues to advance, it’s consequently robbing humanity of the human relations.
A concerned engineer – Follow me @EngineersDay
@fraser
you made a terrible comment you could have just dropped the link in comment, you degalmmarised my post.
@1smartengineer
There are pros and cons of twitter you could get a lot of knowledge of what happening around the world from twitter,if you are a businessman or a website owner you could promote your product or website to get traffic.The difference is the way you looking into it.
At least 20 of the above symptoms matches with me.. I am definately addicted.. follow me on twitter @Sanjukta :P
@sanjukta
I am glad you agree:)
I’m close to be an addict. :)
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@AlexForce
I am very very very close. I may have to go to rehab :\
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@andysh
@LAexa De force and @Andy Shen
It’s nothing wrong spending some time in twitter or social networking sites for the sake of things to know what happening around the world,spending almost all day in twitter is too mcuh may not good for ur health also.thanks for expressing your views.
I guess im the only one who is NOT addicted to Twitter….
omg, i’m so addicted to twitter. [:
follow mee? :p rotfl.
haha, 8 out of 29… I am somewhat of a Twitter addict :)
btw, follow me :P
How about this:
4 Hours Ago – getting Married today 4 hours to go
4 Hours Ago – i plan to update my followers as I go
4 Hours Ago – i have learned to type without seeing the keys on my phone as long as my fiance doesnt mind one hand in pocket
(I’m not even going to list the tweets in between. There’s no point as it would probably fill up the whole page)
15 Minutes Ago – walking up the isle
14 Minutes Ago – at the altar
14 Minutes Ago – saing wedding vows
13 Minutes Ago – we are now maried
Yes, I’ve actually seen this. It’s addiction to the highest extreme.
The physicist would have to say: The clock experiences an exceptionally in tense fit of Brownian movement. ,
A related ambiguity is questions which have the form of yes-no questions, but which are intended not to be. ,
UH-OH…