Twitter Is More Adictive Than Marijuana

 

Since the launch of Twitter in March, 2006 it has been rapidly growing. Now, 3 years later, it is the most popular micro-blogging platform in the world with millions of users constantly answering one simple question in ≤140 characters: What are you doing?

Famous people from all around the world have joined Twitter including 44th President of the United States of America and TV stars such as Stephen Fry, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Britney Spears and more.

My question is, what makes this really basic concept so popular? I asked a few friends of mine on Twitter and one point they all made was that things can spread like wildfire and because it’s so simple to use, anyone can do it. Everything is in real time, you could Tweet one thing and be on the front page of CNN the next day, that’s how insane it is.

Twitter makes it easy to collaborate with your co-workers, just protect your updates and follow each other and that’s it.  A easy-to-use project management system.

Not just that, there are literally thousands of applications for Twitter like making it easy to Tweet with your fellow twitterers to mafia games. With a bit of looking around I’m sure you’ll find an app for everything which makes it even more popular and fun to use.

But what about the actual Tweets themselves? What are they mostly about? Well it’s pretty simple really. Tweets can be about anything from pointless babble, to news updates to spam. Obviously spam is bad but here’s a quick tip: If you spot a spammer just report the username to @spam and the guys over at Twitter will deal with it. Don’t ReTweet the message though as this might get you banned yourself which isn’t good.

Here’s a really funny video  by @charlestrippy showing how Twitter ruined his life. I doubt it’s real but I bet it’s happened to some people bahahaha!