and TwitterBerry (or TweetDeck) would never release a new version without letting you re-install the previous version of the software like some other companies *cough* RIM* cough*Facebook*cough*

;)

Ok.... so after I got my BlackBerry (another addiction!) back in December a co-worker asked me if I heard of TwitterBerry. I replied no, and he went on to explain it (and the Twitter concept). Seemed pretty pointless to me.

Fast forward to earlier this summer (maybe July). I am not sure how I happened to go back to Twitter, but I ended up signing up. And adding TwitterBerry to my BlackBerry. The addiction started slowly. I would tweet in the morning while waiting for the train, before going to lunch, and then when I was headed home.

Then I setup TwitterFeed to feed my blog posts to Twitter. Then I added TwitterFox to Firefox. I tried Twhirl as a desktop client for my MacBook Pro, but didn't really like it. Then I tried Twitterific, and wasn't really happy with that.

Then I stumbled upon... TweekDeck. It took me a bit to get used to the multiple columns visible at once... but now I love it... especially sinced I found TwitScoop... whcih is a big tag cloud of the most popular topics buzzing on Twitter...

this is a full view... and the TwitScoop is from WHen it was announced that Paul Newman died.



This is the TwitScoop form when Wachovia was bought by Citi...



So now I have this visible on my desktop for most of the day at work.... so I can knwo what's happening... sometimes even before I get my CNN alert!!

So about 2 weeks ago I tweeted this (It was Sunday, I was cooking dinner, and was letting my DVR record BigBrother while I cooked, so I could start watching about 20 minutes into the show in order to FF thru all commericals... I had another channel on while it recorded... and noticed the feed from the cable box was frozen... so I went to Channel 9... all broken up... MTV ... same ... all channels frozen!) Then I went into another room and turned on a TV that I have hooked up directly to the cable outlet (no box) picture was grainy, but watchable) . So I missed about 20 minutes of BB... and my relaxing dinner/BB plan was scrapped). The cable eventually came back somtime after 9pm I think....

Then the next morning I noticed I had a direct reply from some person with Comcast in there user name, asking how he could help! I mentioned it to some co-workers, who are aware of my recent Twitter-addiction... and we all thought it was funny.

This morning I was reading this story from the Washington Post, where they mentioned that "Comcast scans Twitter for user gripes". I wonder which other companies are searching Twitter?

So, in case you haven't noticed the Twitter Updates in the left column... I've signed up for Twitter!

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