Are you a Twitterholic?

By Dave Forde on March 20th, 2007

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Some smoke it, some drink it - humans beings, we like our addictions. For quite some time Facebook has been the craze and of late the newest thing to capture the attention of people around the world is Twitter. It is another social networking site that asks one simple question, “What are you doing now?” Friends, family and others in your network can update each other via blogs, websites, SMS, and I’m sure we’ll eventually see integration into other forms of technology soon enough as to what you are doing throughout your day.

LeeAnn Prescott is a Research Director at Hitwise shares some data of how the site has increased its market share by 55% from the week ending 3/10/07 to the week ending 3/17/07. It ranked 41,100 among all sites and 1,412 out of the 4,867 sites in the Net Communities & Chat category.

Of course when ever there is anything popular it always leads to sub-markets being created, just look at all the companies who make products just for Apple’s iPod. Well check out Twitterholic, a site dedicated to the most popular Twitters. Low and beyond a Canadian made the Top 100, Toronto’s Will Pate has made the list with 148 followers wanting to know what Will is up to.

There has got to be a price for being this connected, but what could it be?