Like most other twit­ter users, I have been afflicted recently by the slow­down and gen­eral wonk­i­ness of twit­ter. Where is this plague com­ing from? Who shall we blame? Well, we know who to blame… obvi­ously Israel.

I did notice, how­ever, that my behav­ior as a result of this twit­ter brown-out was wor­ry­ing, to say the least. My trusty Tweet­Deck was fail­ing me (ok, to be fair, it’s the twit­ter API that’s fail­ing) so I found myself refresh­ing the twit­ter home­page sev­eral times a minute. Why?

It would seem that I am addicted to twit­ter. This is not some­thing I am proud of, but I take solace in the knowl­edge that many of my fel­low twit­tites share my obses­sion. The num­ber of tweets refer­ring to how slowly twit­ter is updat­ing and how it is affect­ing them assures me of that.

I would go on, but I noticed that the main part of my post is just under 140 words. You understand…