Considering the amount of time I spend on twitter each day and in an attempt to certify myself a true twitter-aholic (read Twit), I am going to publish the following list -
You know you are a Twitter-aholic when:
1. With every major or minor thought in your head, you are already trying to compose a 140 character dialogue to tweet it. (Have seen people who write tweets like –> *heard sound* *woke-up* *realised nothing* *going back to sleep*)
2. You are hanging out with friends and family and they are begging you to get off your phone and stop tweeting. (Happened to me today
)
3. Yes, you are tweeting from your phone.. because you just need to tweet all the time!
4. You tweet while driving (done that) (I think they will come up with a law against this soon) (*gulp!*)
5. You can proudly claim to know people who are bigger twits than you! (twits = twitteraholic —> Look at the top right widget. Yeah I’m a twit
)
6. You have participated in one of the rollicking trending of hashtags marathon. Great fun! Especially when we trended #iconicindianads
7. You start hashtagging each conversation with friends – even on IMs and SMS. (also, if you know what a hashtag is
)
8. You write everything in a hashtag and create bizarre and insane hashtags. I’m a newbie at this, but some great examples would be Dr. Gonzo, TyagiG and Nothing Man (great people all of them! Follow them at your own risk
) #YouCanAlsoDoItLikeThis.
9. You feel very happy when someone RTs your tweet (RT is ReTweet you nOOB!)
10. You have a lot of fun on twitter and start believing that you are making great friends there (this could also be a sign of how you don’t actually have a life, but that point of view is just of people who don’t get it
)
11. Follower count matters! You feel bad each time this count drops and hope it was a bot leaving and not someone you bored with your tweets. Yeah it matters.
Also, you have to admit, signs of a true twit is to be writing this post
. So we will call it number 12. (For those of you who know me in real life.. don’t you dare laugh at this number!!!
)
Know of some more signs? Please do add to this list.
Awesome post, this says I’m a ‘Twitter-aholic’ =D
12. When u wake up in the morning and the first thing you do even b4 brushing is check all ur tweets from last time when u were asleep
LOLOL! Yes! That’s an important one. Can’t believe I missed it. Happens to me all the time and I know so many people who do it
Good Post… #MagarYaadRakhnaYehPagalpanKiShuruvaatHoSaktiHai
awesome post and i could relate myself to each and every point.
and coming back to 11th point..better follow @unfollowr {they will notify if someone unfollows you.
God bless you
nabeel.
Glad you liked it
It’s a great compliment coming from you, now that I’m such a fan of your writing.
And great tip too! Iske liye to treat milega
Hey, landed here randomly…from guess where..twitter!
13. When you feel like you have actually talked to a celebrity coz u replied to their tweet!
14. When u name drop ppl in conversations Jst coz u follow dem on twitter and noe u can “talk” to dem nytime.
Eg. – during the whole 3 idiots controversy…”yaar yeh chetu ko kya ho gaya hai..samjhana padhega usse..itne badhe writer bane ke chindi nahi hote…pagal hai yaar woh!”
dats all I cn think off…nw I hvta go fight wid smone on twitter coz he called me jingoistice…hw mny expletives cn one fit in 140 characters…..#pointtoponder
d typos r coz I cnt c d keyboard
hahaha. God Bless You. Why have you marked yourself as anonymous? You had some funny and valid points there. Would be good to know who you are.
Anon toh aiwein….
m a frnd f gullu’s…ws his classmate in dubai…
-shrey
Bwahaaha ! Awesome sardarni , love it xoxo
Hahahaha! Only a Twit like you could have made this list. I still have a long way to go as far as becoming a twit goes… but aap jaise senior netizens ka aashirwaad raha toh main bhi jald hi Twitter-aholic ho jaoongi.
Fun read!
Happy Blogging!
good read
Although i feel, as of late, not to tweet much and thinks its cuz of some kinda online depression.
13. if you read this post and all of the comments too
Post the orkutization of facebook, twitter is the only digital addiction worth having – anonymity is easier, apathy is simpler and the verbal deluge is shorter
And in today’s online world, if someone says they are not addicted to some such site or the other, they’re in a state of ‘digital denial’.
Loved your post. Even more I loved the tact of making a confession sound funny.
Proofing the pudding, I’m retweeting this.
Ps- Even if you wrote this post in Hebrew, you couldn’t have hidden the significance of number 12 in your real life. I could hear the 1,25,000 screams as the count crossed 11….
Hey! First of all, I have to thank you. That’s one of the most thoughtful comments I have ever received on my blog
AND .. You gave me a good idea to rename this blog post – how does confessions of a tweet-aholic sound?
And thank you for retweeting it. Feels great that someone really liked what I wrote
I think your title is pretty good. Because it was instinctively what came to your mind. Like the rest of the post.
Don’t tamper with a good moment of insanity
As for the number 12, and your explanation(which you edited and corrected), go back and read my comment again.
It was not all that cryptic when I confessed to being a Sardar myself. I thought the 1,25,000 was pretty telling.
And I don’t know what it stands for in hebrew
You’ve just had a number 12 blonde moment, all by yourself Sunaina. Completely self inflicted
(But like the post, thoroughly entertaining).
Keep writing and keep in touch, addict
Loveeeeeeeeeee it…Yes I’m a twitterholic!
Good job, way to go !!
It’s a honest confession i guess… More or less similar to when we are introduced to the world of Internet and emails… There were days when I used to keep checking mails through mid-night in the initial days
anyways this is a good symptom checker for knowing one is twit-holic… Lucky or unlucky I’m still not yet
Also when you are busy tweeting about a hockey match in the stadium without actually watching the match.
Ya frnds, she did so in India-Spain hockey match.
And when the tag cloud in your blog has ‘Twitter’ with the largest font size…
LOL! Shall see you in office tomorrow
Nothing about tweeting from the pot? Best place and best frame of mind to tweet
Thanks for the mention
N
Lol. This is awesome & very true. Good one.
hey,really nice one……i lik tweetholic yaar…keep writing well…
also add you dont know tweeple’s real name and call them by their twitter handles
Hahaa.. nice blogpost that was…
People mostly copy such kinda stuff from some other site or blog.. but kudos for your original composition.
Another indication of being a twitter-holic: When twitter is down…, you feel as if somebody has cut your oxygen supply..
Thank you
I am like a homing pigeon with twitter. Have to keep going back and checking every couple of hours. So totally know what you mean
Thank you for the comment
)
hahah..thats cool..
Do read my facebook version too..:)
http://ritzn.wordpress.com/
Confessions of 2 twitterohlics : One says , please retweet the order and second says i am a tweetoaler
do read my short post on twitter :
http://vgoel.blogspot.com/2010/05/why-hell-i-tweet.html
@vikaspgoel
Tumne to apni hi nahi saare logon ki hi pol khol di.
Really an awesome blogpost. Keep reavealing.
Very Interesting tweePost, ah this is another sign of twittadiction, to add certain twi, twee, before the words to let others realize, yes we are talking about twitter
Nice and now tells me a lot more about you
Awesome….tweesome !!
My no 13. One feels elated when a bigger twit like you replies or mentions him.
Hah! Aisa kuch nahi hota. I used to feel the same way. No one is big or small on twitter and that is the beauty of it. Don’t let numbers fool you.
That’s an awesome post which denotes me as a true twitter-oholic. specially the point 4 depicts it, I did it many times and just had a close shave on road once *GodWanredMe, butm still d same.. lol
. Well , all in all , nice Post !!
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Nice post!
And btw, the twitter widget is on the top left, not top right!
Happy tweeting and Happy Blogging!