Nationwide Web Epidemic – Twitteritis

Lorrie Thomas

December 30th, 2008
by Lorrie Thomas

Just when you thought you had seen it all with the Twitter Whore  marketing addict, it seems now the entire nation has twitteritis, overuse of twitter has crashed it down again…are we all microblogging addicts?  Twitteritis is a web-related condition where you feel like you have to tell everybody what you are doing ALL THE TIME.  It seems that the world wide web population is plagued…

Twitteritis is a disease, you are not alone
Twitteritis is a disease, you are not alone

Twitteritis is a new and not-so-rare messaging condition linked to the use of twitter, a micro blogging technology.  The condition arises when one becomes diseased with sharing every aspect of what they are doing all the time, everywhere.

Twitteritis can be identified by overuse of twitter.com For example, when someone is brushing their hair – they rush to their browser to twitter that they are brushing their hair or to share that they are petting their cat, scooping ice cream…
Well, I have to go now and post this blog post on Hellotxt since I can’t log into Twitter…I don’t have a problem though, I just microblog socially, maybe a few microblogs a day, really, I can quit ANYTIME….

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Comments:

  1. Miss B
    (December 30th, 2008 at 11:47 pm)

    You are absolutely hilarious and right. Wait a minute, you are the one who “turned me on” to this. ahhhhhhhhhh

  2. Lorrie Thomas

    Lorrie Thomas
    (December 30th, 2008 at 11:51 pm)

    I am working on getting my word de jour published on urbandictionary.com. Glad you are a web addict now too! Happy New Year superteacher!!

  3. Emilia Doerr
    (December 31st, 2008 at 12:12 am)

    OMG. I’m totally brushing my hair right now!

  4. Lorrie Thomas

    Lorrie Thomas
    (December 31st, 2008 at 12:21 am)

    OMG! I’ll follow you!! Follow me! TTYL!! eeeee!!!

  5. Lorrie Thomas

    Lorrie Thomas
    (January 3rd, 2009 at 3:36 pm)

    Fun Follow Up – this term was published on Urban Dictionary http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=twitteritis

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