The Social Networker

by Chris Miller at 12:38:01 PM on Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
This was pointed out online by Gina Trapani.  With so many  clients, websites and tools using Twitter under your account name, you can easily break the API rate limit for yourself and have to wait till the next hour cycle to get tweets and updates.  You know you suffer from VGS when you :
  • constantly trip this rate limit trying to glean as much as you can
  • constantly tune how often clients update to get the maximum out of your hourly limits
  • constantly close and open clients hoping that it will reset your rate limit (umm no)
  • constantly open a client, check something and shut it down so you don't get blocked for the hour
  • constantly watch the counter in the corner of your Twitter client

As you can see, this nervous twitch of rate limit watching is more than an affliction, it consumes you so you don't miss a single tweet.  Learn to jump in the stream of information and jump out without feeling guilty. Learn to ignore the limit.  If you break it, good for you, that means no distractions for the rest of the hour.  Pull your eyes away from the client and take a breath.  I would type more but my rate is running out.

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Further VGS entries:
Created Subject
05/19/2009 Virtual Gratification Syndrome (VGS) - The Co_friend
01/27/2009 Virtual Gratification Syndrome (VGS) - The Over Information Gatherer
12/10/2008 Virtual Gratification Syndrome (VGS) - Social Network Refugee
12/01/2008 Virtual Gratification Syndrome (VGS) - new Repetitive Posting Syndrome (RPS)
11/17/2008 Virtual Gratification Syndrome (VGS) - the publisher aka Minutia-streaming
09/18/2008 Virtual Gratification Syndrome (VGS) - Social Stalking
06/23/2008 Virtual Gratification Syndrome (VGS) - Forcing Temporary Remission
06/12/2008 Using Jott for reading (listening) to hot RSS feeds
05/12/2008 Virtual Gratification Syndrome (VGS) - Profile of a Social Networker
05/08/2008 Virtual Gratification Syndrome (VGS) - the dosage issue
04/14/2008 Tweeting in the bathroom - the new social crime
04/07/2008 Virtual Gratification Syndrome (VGS) - the variance
03/12/2008 Chris Pirillo further proves my VGS theory is true
03/11/2008 Virtual Gratification Syndrome (VGS) - you have it

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