Given some of the problems we’ve all been experiencing with Twitter of late, I decided that some humor might be in order.  Here are the top ten things that Twitter addicts can do while they wait for service to be restored:

1. Stare at the computer screen for signs of life
2. Try Twitter every two minutes to see if it’s better
3. Try Facebook in desperation
4. Check out Friendfeed to see who is complaining about Twitter
5. Stare at the screen some more
6. Start watching a TV show instead of just listening to it in the background
7. Think about cleaning… something. Anything
8. Try to remember the last day you couldn’t use Twitter. In fact, try to remember your life before Twitter
9. Have a face to face conversation
10. Go back to the Twitter screen in desperation and mumble “Please God…” quietly to yourself.

I would like to thank a couple of groups/people for some kind acknowledgments that have appeared during the past week or so:

Profectio, a website that “connects Canada’s communities”, started a competition to determine who the top social media influencers in the country.  I believe I was nominated by David Alston (thanks Dave) and I have wound up making it to the semi-finalist found, along with 31 other worthy individuals.

Here is the list of semi-finalists (you should check them out!):

1. Ben Watson
2. MC Turgeon
3. Kate Trgovac
4. Sébastien Provencher
5. Jacqui Murphy
6. CT Moore
7. Miss604 (hat tip to Rebecca for linking out to all other semi-finalists)
8. Adele McAlear
9. Amber Mac
10. Michelle Leblanc
11. Kris Krug
12. Sandy Kemsley
13. Paul Kedrosky
14. Mitch Joel
15. Mathew Ingram
16. Shannae Ingleton
17. Rae Hoffman
18. Jon Hamilton
19. Ilya Grigorik
20. Michael Geist
21. Brett Gaylor
22. Dave Fleet
23. Mark Evans
24. Mark Dykeman (yours truly)
    
25. April Dunford
26. Cory Doctorow
27. Joey de Villa
28. Ali de Bold
29. David Crow
30. Sylvain Carle
31. Leesa Barnes
32. Darren Barefoot

The entire list (the top 100 nominees) can be found here.

I regret that the other Atlantic Canadian nominees (Marcel Lebrun, David Alston, and Carmen Pirie) aren’t semi-finalists as well.  I feel they are far more active in social media than I am in many ways and they do great work, so please check them out as well.

Regardless, congratulations to everyone and more power to us all.

Finally, I’d like to thank the uncanny Tamar Weinberg for including one of my posts in her Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2008 (Rob Diana, maybe you had me pegged correctly a few months ago).  My guest post at Social Desire.com, The ABCs of Social Media, made it on the 2008 list.  I also had a post on Tamar’s 2007 List, a guest post at SEO 2.0 called I Live In The Blogosphere.  Maybe I’m not saving enough of the good stuff for my own blog…  Just kidding.

Once again, thanks to Tamar and to the people who participated in the Profectio competition.