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Top 10: Signs You’re Addicted to Twitter and/or FriendFeed

May 13, 2008 | Social Media
  1. You’re on the FriendFeed website and find yourself refreshing the page rather than waiting for the auto-refresh. F5 is worn out.
  2. You realize you need to turn off Twitter or FriendFeed to get any work done. Problem is, you “realized” that an hour ago, too.
  3. You get overly excited when you get a new follower.
  4. You find yourself typing “@” to reply to people, even if its in an email.
  5. You are bored and confused whenever there is another Twitter outage.
  6. You have Twhirl or Alert Thingy set to start automatically on boot up.
  7. Your blog hasn’t been updated in awhile, but you’ve been Twittering like crazy.
  8. You feel the strong need to check up on FriendFeed or Twitter before going to bed at night. Or perhaps on your laptop IN bed.
  9. First thing you do when you get home from date night with the wife is check Twitter or FriendFeed.
  10. You put your Twitter handle on your business card.

    Bonus:

  11. You seriously discuss the nationalization of Twitter.

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  • kelsea No.
    I can't Even concentrate In school Because I am thinking Bout twitter! HELP
  • Just type your user name into http://tweetwasters.com/ . It will give you a good indication if you need to cut back or not.
  • What if you use Alert Thingy, Twhirl, Digsby and gtalk all at the same time because you cannot decide which is best. I think I am a lost case.

    I have now settled on Digsby I think - the alerts were taking over my screen :-)
  • Another reason - you know you're addicted to Twitter when you build your own Twelcome page for your Twitter URL AND spend time explaining the marketing behind it to your grammar school child. :)
  • vivavida
    I think I'm getting addicted to twitter and friend feed too . I also check it when I'm on the road.
  • Scoble, you've been an addict since Twitter first plugged their server into the wall. ;)
  • 1. Guilty.
    2. Guilty.
    3. Not really. But finding a new person to follow? Guilty.
    4. Guilty.
    5. Jaiku.
    6. Not guilty.
    7. Guilty.
    8. Guilty. But not in bed. Maryam won't allow it.
    9. Screw that. I have an iPhone.
    10. Guilty.
    11. Guilty.

    Addict!
  • Glad to know that I am not addicted to Twitter! (I don't use FriendFeed, so it doesn't apply.)

    Just thought I'd let you know that #10 and #11 only show 0 and 1.
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