Twitter is like an STD because it is hard to get to get rid of it and you usually don’t know that have it until you are in pain and have possibly given it to someone else.

Twitter is a place where people share their every thought and deed and then the tweeters the ones getting the STD has the 0obligation to comment on each and every possible occasion. Tweeting is when you respond to the original Twitter. STD used to stand for sexually transmitted disease now it stands for Socially Transmitted Disease. Twitter is a place with some useful but mostly irrelevant information and people spend far too much time being concerned about the next useless piece of information.

One of the raging problems of twitter is that celebrities are Twittering and Tweeting so it is giving groupies and stalkers a feeling of closeness by answering a twitter by placing a tweet and then the star or their ghost tweeter answers and they feel not only connected but compelled to tweet over and over again.

There is no cure for this STD only other addictions that can compete like MySpace and Face book. Since there is no cure this STD will spread like a pandemic. STDs spread like wildfire they say that when you sleep with someone you are sleeping with everyone they have slept with. In other words everyone who twitters is tweeting and twittering with everyone that has ever tweeted or twittered.

Twitter has become huge – connecting millions of people every day.  Every second, everyday people, celebrities, politicians and others tweet their every move.  I wonder how some of these people have the time to keep up their twittering.

For instance, what are lawmakers twittering about while they are supposed to be passing a healthcare reform bill that will work for everyone, or at least most everyone.  If they are not sending their tweets about healthcare and Medicare, they should be grounded – you know like kids get grounded and their mom takes their phone until they finish whatever they are supposed to get done.

Titter started out slowly and people said it wouldn’t catch on and it wouldn’t last.  When you think of the fact that twitter began kind of underground and quietly and now is worldwide like an epidemic – it is pretty remarkable.

In fact, when you think of the spread of twitter it can make you think of the spread of STD’s.  It seems like at one point people didn’t talk about them.  In fact they weren’t even called STD’s.  Little by little not only did we start hearing about STD’s and getting information about them, how to identify them, how to treat them and how to avoid getting them.

Next thing you know, despite different types of STD’s and despite all sorts of programs to prevent them including handing out condoms like candy, STD’s are spreading and have become not just an epidemic but a pandemic, affecting millions of people throughout the world and increasing on a daily basis.

When you compare STD’s to Twitter, the spread of this phenomenon has taken place in a very similar way for both.  Perhaps the difference is that in these days of all sorts of electronics and communication the spread of Twitter when it comes to sports, politics, entertainment, general information, news and more, things have actually expanded and moved faster with Twitter than with STD’s.

This may or may not be true because when the medical community started tracking STD’s the type of information and communication systems that we have today was not available.  If it had been, though, it is very possible that information and reporting about STD’s would have revealed that this epidemic which became a pandemic was growing faster worldwide than anyone realized.

This is exactly what has happened with Twitter – it’s as if one day nobody or very few people knew about it and just  week later it was spreading around the word and going constantly – 24/7 – everywhere.