You know you are too popular on Twitter when…

From @Twitter_Tips:

You know you are too popular on Twitter when…

1. People don’t invite you out—they go without you and livetweet you about it.
2. Because you instantly tweet about everything you do, you no longer see the point of confessing in church.
3. You know where the Twitter Twanonymous 12-step meetings are held (“Hi, my name is @, and I'm a Twittaddict…”).
4. You gossip like a complete Twit: “What a failwhale! Her mistweeted tweetahead retweet got her uninvited from the tweetup and the twitcast. With tweetard twittiquette like that she'll never be in the twitterati twibe.”
   
5. You never do anything without first considering how Twitterrific it will sound on Twitter.
6. You lie about how much you Twitter to keep your friends and loved ones from trying to organize a Twittervention against you. You are always jumpy when you go out, afraid they will throw a net over you and pry your blackberry away.
   
7. Everyone knows that while you’re technically still married, your spouse is actually a “Twittdow” (Twitter widow).
8. Whenever you get long-winded, your spouse tells you to “Shut up if you can't talk like we do on Twitter.”
9. Watching court TV you thought the bailiff said “Please be tweeted,” instead of “Please be seated.”
10. In your dreams, everyone has @ symbols where faces should be.
11. You have two homepages: twitter.com, and status.twitter.com …not necessarily in that order.
12. You're Scobelizing your time, resources and life away.
    
13. Big events nearly give you a heart attack every time—from simultaneously trying to listen to it on TV, tweet, and see what everyone else is tweeting about it
    
14. You start to think in 140-character thoughts using abbreviations with too many exclamation points and question marks: “Y can't these ppl learn to p/u their own damn dirty socks. It’s thx 4 nothing 4 all the work I do around here, imho. Y do I p/u with this??!!”
15. Two-hundred thirty-seven people already sent you this blog post this morning.
16. If it weren't for Twitter, you would have no contact with other living beings 167½ out of 168 hours each week. (It would be never, if grocery delivery to your door was available in your area.)
17. People DM you before calling so that they know you will answer.
    
18. When you see thousands of people following the “Can you hear me now?” guy around in ads…you know just how he feels.
19. Your kids know they won't get your attention unless the notes they leave on the kitchen table say something like “@Mom, please bring home milk and DM me if I can go to @Jason’s house.”
20. You have your real name legally changed to your @twitterName.
    
21. Obama and Kevin Rose follow you…and DM you when they need advice.
    
22. You get the “Twitter Twitch”—you've twittered until two in the morning and now all you can do is lay in bed and twitch. 
23. You never leave the site except to go to Tweet-ups.
24. More people know you by your Twitter picture than by what you actually look like.
    
25. You don't bother to have your Twitter client automatically startup on boot because doesn't everyone sleep with Twitter on the laptop next to them in bed?
26. When Twitter goes down, you have to restrain yourself from trying to tweet about, and write in your blog until it comes back online.
27. You understand Twitler's every reference and know exactly how he feels. 
28. You are always accidentally trying your Twitter password to log onto things.
    
29. You need a job, but you can't find one with a Twitter-friendly environment so you remain unemployed…and Twittering about it.
30. You're more popular on twitter.grader.com than @grader itself.
31. Your @name starts appearing in other people's Twitter jokes. 
32. You decide to do a quick check of your tweets before your email - and it ends up being hours before you read your email.
    
33. You freak out when twitter goes down for a few hours and wonder if you will ever see your friends again!
34. You look for the UNFOLLOW button during boring TV shows.
35. You find yourself in an actual, honest-to-goodness face-to-face conversation…and catch yourself looking for the “reply” button. 
36. You start to think of everything in @’s as in “I wish @husband would take the garbage out…”
37. You would never need to wear a tracking device if you were convicted of something because your BrightKite tweets make you easier to track than Barack Obama.
38. You get wedding presents from Twitter friends you have never met in real life. 
39. You resolve to get off Twitter to get some work done but can't remember when you had that thought, and anyway @guykawasaki is just now saying that Alltop is cool because …
40. @guykawasaki DMs you but you miss it because you get too many DMs all at once.
41. When your realize you're having heart palpitations from being so hyped up trying to reply to your thousands of DMs and @'s.
42. You tweet wearing gloves when the heat goes out. 
43. Twitter's business model depends on your tweets. Either that, or they get money from Greenpeace for saving the Fail Whale.
44. It takes you three tries to read this post—because you have to check twitter in between.
45. You’ve long since forgotten what it was like to have friends in the real world in the days “BT” (before Twitter).
46. When you're off twitter, you make up new twords. You share the twords with your twouse who rolls their eyes at you and goes back to sleep.
    
47. Your dog has her own twitter account.   
48. Your name is @conniecrosby. 
49. When u go online to find that recipe, you get so many DMs you logon to twitter & forget to eat dinner, much less cook it.
50. You decide not to tweet your bad experience at a chain restaurant, just in case the CEO decides to follow your tweets and then vows never to hire you to voice their spots…Hey, with Twitter, it could happen!
51. You write articles called "6 Reasons I am a Twitter Crack Whore"
    
52. You respond @eachperson to all friends then realize you probably flooded 30 pages into the feeds of your less popular friends (…a common misconception! Here's how it really works.)
    
53. You start writing on your actual blog and realize u start wrtng shrt form 2 fit what u want n 140 chars. Then you realize it's not necessary & decide to stop writing and go check out what's happening on twitter.
54. Your mind begins to think in update format, categorizing people into TweetDeck columns... and you talk to people the same way.
55. You insist that all of your friends sign up for Twitter, but wait to follow them until they say something interesting.
56. All your thoughts become micro-thoughts, and then other people start to promote your micro-thoughts...
57. When Billionaires like Richard Branson of The Famed Virgin Brand start following YOU on Twitter.
    
58. Your cold has its own twitter account. Yep, check out Digg's founder: @kevinscold. 
59. You no longer like 'talking.' You now prefer talking in tweets... Or 'twalking.' You are constantly competing in your mind to communicate in 140 characters or less.
60. You realize Twitter should be called “Twitch” for how compulsively your fingers are at needing to keep typing something.
61. You type e-mails and just hit ENTER - then wonder why it didn't go.
62. When you find yourself converting all your blog posts to excerpts.
63. You're supposed to be a legal observer, but you spend election day at the polls compulsively checking your phone for Twitter hashtag election results. 
    
64. It gives you flashbacks to the BBS days
65. You find yourself nodding knowingly to every item on this list
    

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