Signs You're Addicted To Twitter

I’ve become a Twitter addict.

It’s great fun. No messages over 140 characters long; which also means it doesn’t have to take up too much of your time. Well, in theory.

You follow complete strangers, who in turn follow you. The number of followers you have, I think, determines who’s winning in the popularity stakes. “And it’s @Jesus by a nose with @Mohammed coming up on the inside…”

Anyway, recently the fun and talented Wendy Lester (AKA Wendywings) of Auckland began a thread called #twitteraddict. I warmly embraced this concept; though she and I seemed to be the only two contributors.

Here’s a selection of some of our better tweets:

* You know you have a problem when all of your friends’ names start with @.

* You tweet to your psychiatrist.

* Your significant other gets an account just so they will know what is for dinner because you tweet it every night.

* You name your firstborn @babygirl1.

* Your prayers now begin "@God..."

* Your favourite t-shirt has "BRB @reallife" on it.

* You're at the McDonald's drive-thru, see "Hash browns" and think "That's a weird topic."

* When you speak you subconsciously edit your sentences to under 140 characters.

* You see people texting at the mall and wonder "are they tweeting and what is their @ name?"

If the thread continues, I’ll continue to update the blog.