I am a self -admitted procrastinator. I have become such a pro at wasting time that it’s almost like a full time job for me. I really put in overtime, especially the technological kind. In fact, today as I was playing "Crazy Eights" with some people on set of a movie that I’m tutoring on, I started to panic. I was wondering when I was going to have time today to waste time. Then as I played hockey with a friend in the basement of the house we were filming at, I wondered if I would have any free time when I got home tonight to check my
facebook,
myspace,
gmail,
hotmail,
quepasa, and
ebay accounts, before I met my
friend from LA on ichat so she could show me her new tongue ring.
All this said, I have yet to succumb to the ultimate time waster,
Twitter. Everyone but me is twittering. I can accept that for now because yesterday, as I was teaching a seven-year-old how to blow a bubble inside a bubble outside the craft truck, I realized that I am not willing to give up any of my wasted time to twitter.
You know who does have time to twitter? Athletes. I was relieved to hear that
Lance Armstrong, who recently broke his collarbone in a bike crash during his comeback race in Spain, reported live from his hospital bed to let us know that even though his hand hurts, he’s okay. On my drive to work this morning I heard my favorite twitter story to date on the radio. It was how Milwaukee Bucks player
Charlie Villanueva was scolded by his coach,
Scott Skiles for twittering during halftime. Villanueva posted to his status: “In da locker room, snuck to post my twitt. We're playing the Celtics, tie ball game at da half. Coach wants more toughness. I gotta step up." Skiles informed Villanueva that halftime was not a time to log on to Twitter. You know what other times I personally think are not good for people to log on to Twitter? While you’re breast feeding, having sex, or going to the bathroom, but people are doing it anyways. I’ll take the halftime statuses over hearing about all of above any day.
Who are the most popular people on Twitter these days? While
Barack Obama, has 554,292 followers;
Britney Spears is close with 537,940 followers. Scary!
Coldplay is the top band, with 336,053 followers and
Perez Hilton, is the top blogger with 303,140 followers. Some other famous tweeters are:
John Mayer,
Ashton Kutcher,
Ellen, and
Jimmy Fallon.
So although Twitter seems to be the time-wasting trend of the moment, I think I’ll stick to a more traditional trend for now. One that has more followers than Barack Obama and Britney Spears combined. Tongue piercing.