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Hi, I’m Frank. And I’m a Twitterholic. I’ve been clean for about…35 minutes. It’s a hard battle that I’m facing hour to hour. Everytime I see a something out of the ordinary, I have the strongest urge to stop what I’m doing and get on my phone to tweet txt or rush home to tell everyone what I just saw.

I know I have a problem. And that’s the first step. Now, how did I get here? It started out simple. I’d say “hey, this movie rocks, check it out.” But it was just downhill from there. I was sitting in Church, and the Reverend was speaking a passage when all of a sudden he said “cock” (as in referring to a rooster). A click open and several taps later and on my twitter account was, “LOL HE JUST SAID COCK! [as in referring to a rooster, but the juxtaposition of the person and the word taken out of context made it "lol-worthy"]”

I pressed send, and I looked at my phone. “Was this a sign of things to come?” I pondered to myself. “No. It’s just a one-time deal. It’ll never happen again.” Of course I lied to myself. Upon watching  The Day the Earth Stood Still, I tweeted no less than 20 times. For those of you with a calculator, that’s one tweet per six minutes. Examples of said tweets:
“OMG NEO! WHOA, NEO!”
“NEO’S AN ALIEN? WTF?!”
“MAMA BOUCHER IS THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE? WTFWTFWTF?!?!?!”

Although, in my defense, it was the only way to make the film entertaining. I’m not saying it gives me the right, but….it’s hard, you know? It’s a long battle. I have to realize that when I see a carnival on the road, I have to dial a friend’s number to tell him/her about what I just saw, and not just put it out there on the interwebs.

Now to repost this on my Tumblr….brb.

Sure, not everyone ‘gets’ Twitter. Lets face it; some people were born cool and into awesome, cutting-edge, social new media sites and some were just born to be on MySpace. But, who are these merchants of cool that crowd the Twitter-space with glorious witticisms and links to things you think are cool and witty and beautiful?

Luckily for those of you who like these kinds of answers answered in easily indexable and reference-able lists, SF/J has a completely compiled list of people on Twitter. Need an exemplary excerpt? Fine, have one:

people who are just back from a really awesome run

people who are involved with “computers”

DJs

DJs at the airport

DJs who are drunk

people who don’t have anyone’s email address

people who are mad at television

The full list is rather entertaining as well. Which Twitter user are you? Me? I’m split between ‘people who like Battlestar Galactica’ and ‘Rachel Maddow‘.

Everyone loves Twitter. And the biggest political users of twitter so far have been members of the GOP in Congress. But, is it OK to Twitter comments while in a “private” meeting with President Obama? I think that it’s great and I want to see more of it.

“Audiences usually treat presidents to a round of polite applause, but when President Obama addressed House Republicans on Tuesday, they started Twittering,” according to The Hill.

“While Obama implored Republicans behind closed doors to consider supporting his economic stimulus bill, GOP thumbs worked overtime, tapping updates onto the microblogging website for thousands to read.”

[via Political Wire]