Is Twitter a Drug? Do I need an Intervention?

Is Twitter is a Drug? As a matter of fact there is a web site called Twitterholic. This is a post about Twitter Detox and Withdrawal Symptoms from a guy who was told by a former mentor I “gambled in business” too much, going for the brass ring.

Authors note: I wrote this post in early 2009. Since then my blog has gone down due to some hackers so I decided to re-build it, hence this post is a few months old and it is now Saturday may 30th, 2009.

I’m a guy who lives on the edge, but I won’t bore you with the details unless enough people ask. I’ve been through the parties, you name it I’ve done most of it. I’ve let go of the traditional substances for they didn’t offer me much other than a headache the next morning and a feeling of despair from the “big night out.” (Notice how little I incriminate myself here). So I found a new drug. And it is powerful. It’s called Twitter. Twitter is my drug of choice. It gives instant gratification any where any time and I don’t have to go to the bathroom to do it or hide it, because today it is still legal. I mean Twitter is a real dopamine rush.

Some have heard of it and some haven’t. Think computers and cell phones. Twitter is THE killer application for the cell phone bar none. At the end of the day it is like an instant messaging news service on steroids (sorry A-Rod, A-Roid, A-Fraud, I couldn’t resist). You get “tweets” on your desktop and your cell phone from your “followers.” It has grown into a massive community of millions. Twitter is making Reuters and AP wet their pants (The New York Times already took a big dump in theirs) with a real time news service broadcasting globally images and text of the plane in the Hudson River just one minute after the event. (Twitter is changing the world almost as fast as the New World Order and the Bilderberg Group. More on that in a minute. I just hope like hell Twitterville, Tweeple and the Twitterverse wake up and see the light and have a Twestival to stop the NWO and Bilderbergers). The way to stop this from happening is two fold reaching out to the Oathkeepers and dismantling the Federal Reserve. The US Congress has the power to do that. Our so called leadership is fleecing blind and we are a bunch of suckers for allowing it to happen before our eyes, take a look at this video to see where our country is going.

The next thing you know Matt Drudge has the Hudson River plane image on his home page and it is all over Facebook and Friendfeed in a matter of minutes all because the information came from Twitterers. So, let’s get relevant, you want to keep up with friends and find out if they want support at the big New Year’s Party so they don’t relapse, you can track them by Twitter and they you too. Not as dramatic as the Hudson River crash but interesting nonetheless.

On Wednesday Feb 18th 2009 I was experiencing some actual withdrawal symptoms because my 1,000 + friends on Twitter I couldn’t access and send out “tweets” to (tweets are 140 text characters that can also be sent by SMS on a mobile device). So my brain says this must be some sort of a technical problem and the tech’s at Twitter are probably working on it. But I was sending out some “controversial tweets” and my brain also aid was I being a little “too free” with my free press? Here were a couple of sample tweets:

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