I’ve done a couple of posts recently that seem to have struck a chord with people; You Know You’re a Parent When… and Twitter is Like… I’ve been totally bowled over by the response to both, so thank you very much. It seems that the secret to a successful blog post is having an ellipsis in your blog title, and doing all your writing after several glasses of wine.
It’s the middle of the morning right now, so I’ve not had any wine, but just for a laugh I thought I’d combine the topics of those two posts, and do a quick one called You know you spend too much time on Twitter when… Feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments.
You know you spend too much time on Twitter when… you find yourself agonising about whether to add a dark grit or light grit border to an iPhone picture of your dinner before you tweet it.
You know you spend too much time on Twitter when… you find yourself clicking on a link to see a photo of what someone else is having for dinner.
You know you spend too much time on Twitter when… you sometimes include @neilhimself or @caitlinmoran in a tweet, in the hope of getting that life changing RT.
You know you spend too much time on Twitter when… you meet people at events and don’t know whether to call them by their Twitter handle or their real name.
You know you spend too much time on Twitter when… you know the best times of day to pimp your blog posts.
You know you spend too much time on Twitter when… you find yourself wanting to use hashtags in emails.
You know you spend too much time on Twitter when… you have a folder on your desktop for screenshots of tweets from slightly famous people that mention you. Ahem.
Any others…?
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Ellen at In A Bun Dance has kept the You Know You’re A… series going with a great post about being a blogger, and I also hear rumours that Nickie will be doing You Know You’re a Grandparent When… post over at Typecast sometime soon. I can’t wait for that one.
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You know you spend too much time on Twitter when the first thing you do after your alarm clock goes off is pick up your phone and check for updates. I don’t ever take my phone into the bathroom though. No never. @slicknic
Haha, we’re such saddos aren’t we?! x
You know you’re on Twitter too much when you don’t bother making any decisions for yourself, you just ask your Twitter chums. Thanks for then mention. x
Absolutely. Who needs Google when you can just ask Twitter? xx
You know you are on twitter too much when you try to cut everything you say down to 140 characters…
Too true!
Mascara and Mud – great name! x
You know you’re on twitter too much when all of your real life conversations start with ‘my friend on twitter../I saw the coolest thing on twitter the other day…’
*Cringe* yup, that’s me! Bang on the money!
ffs… I’ll *have* to do that post now!!
You know you’re on Twitter too much when you turn to Twitter rather than Google for a query and no-one points you in the direction of lmgtfy.com
Why d’you think I mentioned it 😉
Oh it’s so true. I almost never use Google now, it’s probably horribly annoying for people.
You can spend “too much time on twitter”? Sorry, you’ll have to explain- in 140 characters or fewer with appropriate # tag of course.
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Xxx
🙂 hehe, you might be right.
Thanks for reading and commenting, lovely xxx
You know you spend too much time on twitter when you heart skips a beat every time you get a new ‘follower’….so sad!
Awww, that’s a lovely one! They’ll have to start making new Loveheart sweets with Tweet Me on them! Xx
Another fab post! I once heard someone say Retweet! Retweet! when he agreed with something a friend was saying. Perhaps that’s one for “You know you should deactivate your Twitter account when…’
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Oh god, that’s awful and hilarious at the same time! Makes me feel a lot better – I’m a long way from that! Although I do get social network confusion sometimes – I want to RT things on Facebook and Like things on Twitter! Xx
OMG! Number 1 guilty, Number 2 guilty. Number 3, guilty. Number 4,guilty…………..
Teehee, don’t worry, you’re definitely not alone! Xx
You’re supposed to be watching TV or talking to a family member and you realise after an hour that you haven’t heard a word that’s been said because you’re busy trying to find new friends to follow and read tweets!
I would never do that! Nope, never! Okay… Well maybe once or twice 😉 thanks for reading and commenting xx
So funny! So true! I #loveit 🙂
Thanks so much! Xx
Oh dear…I’ve only been on twitter for three days and I am hooked, so far seems like a lovely friendly place 🙂
You know you spend too much time on twitter when your iPhone runs out of power before you get out of bed!!!!!!
Hahaha, how could I have forgotten that one – brilliant! Glad you are enjoying it so far xx
You’re watching TV and tweeting about the programme at the same time to people doing the same thing – for hours!
And hours… And hours!
It’s the #tag for everything one for me and wanting to ‘like’ tweets!
You know you spend too much time on twitter when your OH threatens to join twitter just so he can talk to you…..
Heh, I don’t think you’re unusual in that! Thanks for reading and commenting 🙂 xx
or your OH tweets you just to ask if you want a cup of tea!
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