I am a Twitterholic!

I have been tagged by Kate at The Five F's Blog on her new meme about being a Twitterholic.

It's true, I am a Twitterholic and I don't care!

When did you join Twitter? (Find out by going to bwitterday)

I am most surprised to find out I joined Twitter February 27th 2008. That seems like such a long time ago!

Why did you join Twitter?

I was getting a bit narked off with Facebook and a friend of mine told me to join Twitter as that was where "all the cool kids were" - those were her words, not mine. I really didn't "get" it to start with, I'm not sure many people do but once I started Tweeting I quickly built up some followers.

Who is/was your first or oldest follower? Who did you follow first? Tell me all about them! (check our First Five Followers)

Believe it or not my first ever follower was a cat. Yep, a lovely little kitty called Daphne. Daphne's housemaid Kate was my second follower and the person who introduced me to Twitter. As I didn't know anyone else on Twitter at the time I suspect that Kate and Daphne were the first people I followed too. I "met" Kate through a forum a few years ago but we're really only in contact via Facebook and Twitter these days as both of those are more than enough to fill up your spare time! Kate works for The Guardian and you'll occasionally see her on BBC News 24.

Do you have any celebrities following you, or have you ever had a DM from a celeb?

I've had to check back through my list to see if there are any celebrities following me and this has taken a good chunk of time!

Does a restaurant count? I'm slightly alarmed to find Pizza Express is following me - I must Tweet about going there a lot... The lovely Rowetta, formerly of XFactor follows me and we've had a few Twitter conversations in the past, she's a very nice lady and if you love a Davina fitness DVD I am Twitter buds with her lovely personal trainer Jackie who is so much fun but the real celebrity I can pull out of the bag is...Jamie Oliver and it's a verified account so I know it's actually him and not some sneaky imposter.

I've never had a DM from a celeb but I have had a Twitter convo with the absolutely lovely Sarah Brown (as in Gordon's wife) and she has retweeted some of my Tweets in the past. I think I have a bit of a girly crush on her, it made my day when she Tweeted at me.

I don't really follow many celebs myself as I find them a bit boring on the whole and most don't reply to you so I don't see the point. I make an exception for Katy Perry and Russell Brand because I love them very muchly.

If you could follow anyone not on Twitter - alive, dead, real or fictional - on Twitter, who would it be?

I am going to be incredibly shallow and say Robert Pattinson. You'd expect nothing less of me surely? Failing that Robert Winston, Adam Henson, The Queen (or Prince Phillip - he'd be hilarious!), Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Collins...so many interesting people.

Which came first - Twitter or blog?

Blogging came first for me, I first started blogging in 2005, some of the posts have been copied over here. This is actually my 3rd blog I think, I got fed up with the others. Twitter has certainly helped gain readers of my blog though!

In time honoured tradition, I am now going to past this meme on to some other great Tweeters and bloggers!

Whimsical Wife
Cooking, Cakes and Children
Happy Elastic
(Mostly) Yummy Mummy

The rules, as defined by Kate, are;

1. Nick the badge at the top, and mention the person who tagged you.
2. Answer the questions. (Duh!)
3. Tag some other great twitterholics bloggers.

love & kisses
Mrs M x