This weekend I was introduced to Texas-sized allergies, and as the saying goes, everything is bigger in Texas. To try to remedy the fact that my eyes itched like I rubbed them with poison ivy and my sneezes rivaled hurricane-force winds, I decided to take some Benadryl. While the relief I gained was fantastic, I once again proved I have the drug tolerance of an infant. The stuff made me so groggy I could do nothing but lie on my couch in slug-like repose. So, why am I telling you this story on the 29 Agency blog? Here comes the point.
Since I could do nothing but lie around, I decided to let the television be my entertainment. While flipping through the usual suspects, I happened upon a fantastic train wreck of a show – Kirstie Alley’s Big Life (on A&E). I am not normally one for reality TV, but the episode I happened to catch had subject matter near and dear to my heart – TWITTER. In this episode the circus-esque cast that lives with Kirstie staged a “Twittervention,” citing the fact that while Ashton Kutcher, the self-proclaimed king of twitter has around 5,000 tweets, Kirstie was coming in at a whopping 14,000! They actually called the episode “They tried to make me go to twee-hab!” The point (if you can call it that) was that Kirstie was spending too much time on Twitter with perfect strangers and not enough time with the real people in her life. Perhaps it was my drug induced haze or savvy marketing sense, but this episode sparked a discussion in my head: How much twitter is too much? And how should Twitter be used.
We’ll be doing a follow up post on what we think as far as what is too much tweeting, and how we feel it is used best. But, until then, we would love to hear what you have to say.
And of course, we’ll be tweeting about this post!
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