Is Twitter a Drug? Do I need an Intervention?

Posted at May 30, 2009

Is Twitter is a Drug? As a matter of fact there is a web site called Twitterholic. This is a post about Twitter Detox and Withdrawal Symptoms from a guy who was told by a former mentor I “gambled in business” too much, going for the brass ring.

Authors note: I wrote this post in early 2009. Since then my blog has gone down due to some hackers so I decided to re-build it, hence this post is a few months old and it is now Saturday may 30th, 2009.

I’m a guy who lives on the edge, but I won’t bore you with the details unless enough people ask. I’ve been through the parties, you name it I’ve done most of it. I’ve let go of the traditional substances for they didn’t offer me much other than a headache the next morning and a feeling of despair from the “big night out.” (Notice how little I incriminate myself here). So I found a new drug. And it is powerful. It’s called Twitter. Twitter is my drug of choice. It gives instant gratification any where any time and I don’t have to go to the bathroom to do it or hide it, because today it is still legal. I mean Twitter is a real dopamine rush.

Some have heard of it and some haven’t. Think computers and cell phones. Twitter is THE killer application for the cell phone bar none. At the end of the day it is like an instant messaging news service on steroids (sorry A-Rod, A-Roid, A-Fraud, I couldn’t resist). You get “tweets” on your desktop and your cell phone from your “followers.” It has grown into a massive community of millions. Twitter is making Reuters and AP wet their pants (The New York Times already took a big dump in theirs) with a real time news service broadcasting globally images and text of the plane in the Hudson River just one minute after the event. (Twitter is changing the world almost as fast as the New World Order and the Bilderberg Group. More on that in a minute. I just hope like hell Twitterville, Tweeple and the Twitterverse wake up and see the light and have a Twestival to stop the NWO and Bilderbergers). The way to stop this from happening is two fold reaching out to the Oathkeepers and dismantling the Federal Reserve. The US Congress has the power to do that. Our so called leadership is fleecing blind and we are a bunch of suckers for allowing it to happen before our eyes, take a look at this video to see where our country is going.

The next thing you know Matt Drudge has the Hudson River plane image on his home page and it is all over Facebook and Friendfeed in a matter of minutes all because the information came from Twitterers. So, let’s get relevant, you want to keep up with friends and find out if they want support at the big New Year’s Party so they don’t relapse, you can track them by Twitter and they you too. Not as dramatic as the Hudson River crash but interesting nonetheless.

On Wednesday Feb 18th 2009 I was experiencing some actual withdrawal symptoms because my 1,000 + friends on Twitter I couldn’t access and send out “tweets” to (tweets are 140 text characters that can also be sent by SMS on a mobile device). So my brain says this must be some sort of a technical problem and the tech’s at Twitter are probably working on it. But I was sending out some “controversial tweets” and my brain also aid was I being a little “too free” with my free press? Here were a couple of sample tweets:

JimPeake
1. We’ve been brainwashed. People have been told that they need to have income taxes. How did we fund gov’t in 1776 -1913? http://zi.ma/2a3a5e 11:47 PM Feb 18th from TweetDeck

2. “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” Goethe http://zi.ma/2a3a5e 11:40 PM Feb 18th from TweetDeck

3. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. Mark Twain #quotes #tcoc 11:23 PM Feb 18th from TweetDeck

4. Carnival Networking Party/Event Friday, February 20th 8:00 PM to… very late Zanzibar restaurant/lounge 645 9th Avenue at 45th St 10:08 PM Feb 18th from TweetDeck

5. “I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. ” Woodrow Wilson http://zi.ma/d2ac8b 9:46 PM Feb 18th from TweetDeck

6. no longer a government by conviction & the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion & duress of a small group of dominant men. 9:37 PM Feb 18th from TweetDeck

7. @gacconsultants @stevecase @karlrove @nancypelosi In a time of deceit telling the truth is revolutionary. George Orwell http://zi.ma/2a3a5e 9:28 PM Feb 18th from TweetDeck

8. @SteveCase this whole thing is by design Steve. http://zi.ma/9ff342 8:33 PM Feb 18th from TweetDeck in reply to SteveCase

So these little cryptic notes look innocuous right? Spend a little time on the links and see what they have to offer, you might be surprised. The old adage “question authority” is in play here. I’m extremely concerned for my now 9 year old son and the rest of the beautiful kids in this world that they will be inheriting a Prison Planet ruled by the Global Elite and the Jesuit Order.

To be honest I’m scared writing this blog post, but the last thing I want to do is look my kid in the eye 5 years from now and answer his question, “Daddy, so what did you do to while this was happening? Why didn’t you do something? I don’t like living this way under Marshall law.” I will speak out and not cave in like cockroach who scurries when light is shed on them.

So in sending out this information can make one paranoid, I am paranoid like a cocaine addict is with police. Getting my account suspended on Twitter concerned me that maybe the New World Order was a lot closer than I thought, or maybe I was just fucking going crazy. So I waited about 12 hours or so after I contacted customer service. I was without Twitter. I could not communicate with my community. I work from home so I have all of these “office buddies” who are online. We keep in touch face to face, online, Twitter, Facebook, Linked in, business, local Tweet Up’s etc. Some days my work and my community I work 20 hours per day, and sleep very little, this is a Twitter addict. When I have finished that last proposal or that report I go on Twitter and throw out my 2 cents on something.

Sometimes I go to DrudgeReport to find a thought provoking article to stir the sleeping masses on Twitter to see if someone is awake, often I find one or two. It usually works but the conversations are short lived to tell you the truth, as time goes on this might change. Many people couldn’t really give a shit except guys like @infowars @infowarsstories @gacconsultants (he got out of the U.S.A and moved to Costa Rica maybe because living in the USA has become so unbearable for some). More on GAC in a minute.

So it is Thursday morning, no Twitter. Thursday early afternoon, no Twitter. Paranoia kicks in big time. (But you thought that only happened to drug addicts’ right)? Wrong. I’m a Twitter addict. Finally, Thurs late afternoon I sent Twitter an e-mail customer support ticket I was issued by Twitter that did not work for me. I was not getting answers, I needed a Twitter Fix. I was Jonesing….and many of you readers know exactly what I’m talking about, I needed an answer as to why I was suspended! I needed to be back on Twitter, I needed to mainline some Twitter.

I re-read the terms and conditions, did I spam @stevecase? Did I upset @nancypelosi while she was vacationing at the Vatican getting her New World Order orders from the Pope Benedict? Did I offend @karlrove? He’s a pretty sensitive guy but he has a good rap. Did I send out too many Tweets too fast or accumulate too many followers too fast? I was worried it was the content. I got hammered recently when I sent this video out with David Icke in an email, he is a passionate “radical fellow” but he supports his argument well on the New World Order theory. Maybe I should have gone easier on my e-mail recipient and sent out Freedom Fighter Aaron Russo’s Freedom to Fascism video? Aaron recently died.

At this time in the process after I sent out the e-mail to Twitter I was shaking. I was shaking like an addict. For me it was similar to driving long distance for 20 hours (I did a lot of that in college) and drinking 7 cups of coffee on an empty stomach. The caffeine I had that day with the Twitter withdrawal I was a mess. I realized it when I was on the phone with my new and good friend Liz Strauss, (daughter of a saloon keeper and person who poured her first draft at 4 years old) we met on Twitter just a few months ago and she will tell that story in an upcoming blog post with www.1to1media.com. I realized I needed help. The help for me was not a Twitter Intervention but it was a conversation with Liz, it was food (something I forgot to do –eat) and it was fresh air. So I did all of those things. I felt better.

At 9:21 P.M. I was whole again, at least partially whole. Twitter sent me mail saying that my URL on my Internet consulting blog was the problem and it was some sort of a malware link. (Maybe my Twitter account was hacked and someone stuck in a malware link)? So Twitter removed it and I was back in business, or at least I thought so. It has still been sputtering and I have been having trouble adding followers. The reason we want more followers is that it helps build our community. (Except I was being followed by a FBI Twitterer and I chose to block them because of my paranoia and I know they have better ways to keep track of me). One of the things that the government will be doing anyway unless we put a stop to it is inserting RFID chips into us.

I might Tweet on something, New World Order, Yankees or anything and one Tweet can spark a great conversation as it did with Mark Harai @gacconsultants. Now here is a great guy. Never met him face to face yet but we have been Tweeting each other for a few weeks and we talked on the phone the other night and he and I are friends. I mean that with all sincerity, this is a true friendship in the making as my friendship is with Liz all cemented with the glue of Twitter. We are all around the same age and we have gravitated towards making the world better place each in our own small way.

So right now on Friday night as I write this I am getting so many followers I can’t keep up and follow them back. The system seems to hang on me and I don’t have the energy to submit it ticket, it is 12:43 AM. (The system is back to normal, Twitter does a great job maintaining a complex service that is in high demand).

When I interviewed Biz Stone with my partner Ronald Goedendorp we talked about how people have said that they would rather give up sex for two weeks or x period of time than lose Twitter. How many of you drug addicts have given up sex for drugs or alcohol? A few I bet. So this Twitter thing is here to stay and more and more people are weaving it into their daily lives like a drug or like air and water. When it becomes too much for some people do you think it will require a full on Twitter Treatment Center Rehab and Clinic for people to quit the addicting Twitter habit?

Hey, before I go how would you like a little education on the real under belly of the drug industry? How would you like to know who is pushing all these drugs here in the USA? What would you say if you knew these drug dealers by their first and last names and even knew the names of their children? How about, why are they pushing all of these drugs in the USA? Mike Ruppert, is a former South Central narcotics detective with the Los Angeles Police Department an LAPD cop, but Mike is a modern day hero speaking out on this issue. He starts out the meeting “Hi, my name is Mike and I’m an alcoholic.” Mike does not speculate, he delivers only the facts. What is at stake is our freedom and what is at stake is our future.

What can we do? Start by calling and writing your congressman and demand that the Federal Reserve be dismantled. Cut the head off of the snake. George Green explains in Project Camelot follow the money and we solve many of our problems or otherwise we will be in a prison planet or a dead planet.

Be well and take care of yourself, you deserve it. Come join me, I can be reached on Twitter at http://Twitter.com/JimPeake and http://twitter.com/impairment

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