Twitter rules!

Twitter is quickly becoming a favorite pastime.

And, like anything you enjoy, you care about the rules because they determine what you can and can't do and thus, how far you can push the envelope. Some like to play by the rules, while others prefer breaking them or tweaking them.

I've live my life by playing by the rules (it's a long story). But it worries me when something as seemingly harmless as Twitter creates a set of guidelines, and God forbid I break one without knowing.

For example, here are some of the Twitter rules that may keep me up at night:

• If you have followed a large amount of users in a short amount of time;

What if all of a sudden I just feel the need to follow more people? Or what if it's a class assignment? What constitutes 'large'?

• If you have a small number of followers compared to the amount of people you are following;

I may just be so desperate to make friends through Twitter....or I have lots of enemies and I just want to see what they're up to...

• If your updates consist mainly of links, and not personal updates;

I may be linking to my blog because 140 characters is just not enough to express myself...

• If you post multiple unrelated updates to a topic using #;

I blame it on computers...A scenario: I'm typing something to reply to someone, but I end up not liking what I wrote so I delete it and by accident I press the update button once but my computer reads it as 10 times--well, that would only happen on Windows--but still. It could happen.

Ay, ay, ay...

(that's 13 characters, but a LOT of uncertainty).