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It has taken over my life, Twitter. I have an addictive personality, that is why I have always stayed away from drugs, I knew that all it would take is a sniff and I would have been gone. So it is not surprising that first it was Blogspot, then Facebook and now Twitter have taken hold of my additive personality and become my obsession. 


I first got into Twitter when during the Green Revolution took place in Iran 2009. I wanted to know more about what was going on, and watching BBC and Aljazeera I realised they were getting their news from Twitter, so I signed up and my addiction started.


But with Twitter it is different (that is what I say about every guy that I obsess over also), I feel that this addiction might just last longer and the reasons are as follows:

1. I am following magazines, newspapers, radio shows, and organisations that I find spellbinding and Twitter gives me instant and easy access to them. 
2. The people I am following are from around the world, and unlike Facebook we aren't 'friends' thus the commitment of following them seems not so scary.
3. I love reading the topics/issues that are trending. Depending on which part of the world is awake the topics change and shift. It is dynamic and I love watching as trending topics adapt to the Earth's rotation.
4. There are great "conversations" taking place on Twitter, today I participated in #FF, and through this conversation I was introduced to great twitterers and amazing new blogs. A whole new world was opened to me, the icing on the cake is that they are mostly Arabs; and I was blown away with their level of engagement.
5. I find its such an honour, when I follow someone and they reciprocate. They don't have to, and that is why it really makes me feel good about myself when they do. I follow them because I believe they add something to my online life and thus to my 'real" life, for them to follow me means that they believe the same about me. 
6. There is a certain responsibility that comes with having a Twitter account. I like that fact that people take it seriously, and rarely abuse it as they do their Facebook status with telling us how their soup is, or what colour underwear they are wearing.
7. I love the political engagement of Twitter.
8. Simply J'adore Tweeting

So Twitter is my cocaine, I spend hours on it, reading interesting articles, getting the latest headlines, reading great poetry, tweets that make me piss in my pants from laughter, and tweets that me feel not so alone in this world.

Thanks Twitter and the people I follow on Twitter!!!

Good Day and Good Luck