Why I Love Twitter So Much

Every time I'm excited about something or come up with something new, my friends say "Oh, did you find that on Twitter?". Twitter has become a joke in my circle of friends, yet I'm the only one who "twitters". They have no clue what they are missing. But can you keep a secret? I kind of like that I'm the only one that twitters in the group. It makes me feel like I have something of my own - my own little "Twitter World".

Here's something I have discovered. I don't think I've really seen this on the reviews of why people twitter. This is WHY I love to twitter, and I'm sure it's the real reason why others do too:

-You meet some really neat people - people just like yourself, who if you lived where they lived you know you'd be friends. I have some twitter friends who I converse with quite frequently. They come into my home each day, and I don't even have to clean! I don't have to feed them either.

-Watching TV has never been so much fun. Hubby LOATHES American Idol. This season I've had the funnest American Idol season tweeting amongst other tweets as the show goes on. @burgmom624 knows I want Kris Allen to win, and I know she wants Adam Lambert to win. We've pegged them to be in the final for weeks now. So if it weren't for Twitter, I'd be watching American Idol by myself. I'm sure you're all thinking to yourself "Well she is watching American Idol by herself", but it's different sharing it with twitter pals each week.

-If I have a question - I go to twitter now. Funny I twitter it before I google it now. I get so many wise answers - especially from other moms. After all, it is us moms who are the wise ones.

- If you have a crisis going on - your twitter pals are there to back you up. The night my son had been prescribed too much meds and was halucinating, it was @lauratoogood who told me what to do and kept me calm while hubby was on the phone with the pharmacy. FYI she was way faster at giving us info than getting in touch with the pharmacy. Unlike the rat race I live in, people care about other tweets on twitter. Twitter was abuzz that night with what was going on, and it was my twitter pals who wanted to know how my son was the next day.

-I also found @paintermommy on twitter. She is the brilliant designer who did my blog header and button for my Usborne Activities blog. What she did was so cool! If you look at the header design she has my daughter actually painting her own penguin painting that she did. At some point I'm going to have her spruce up Lily's Licorice a bit.

So for all of you who think twitter is some dumb thing where you post your mindless thoughts in 140 characters or less, think twice about it. Try it. You just might like it.

If you'd like to follow me on twitter you can do so here. I'm UzzieMom on twitter. And if you'd like some decent tweets to start following besides the ones mentioned above, I recommend: @ohMariana, @sugarkisses, @haysdewy, @mommy_grrl, @zrecsmom, @chicmom, @shalomcharlie, and @dragonblogger. The dragon blogger is a poet and he puts out tweets asking for one word and writes poems out of what is tweeted back. He's a brilliant writer/poet!

Come on and follow me!