"For the uninitiated, here's how Twitter works - I have no f***ing idea. I have no idea how it works - or why it is." (Jon Stewart, comedian and host of The Daily Show). That is all part of exposing your life on a social networking website. The use of Twitter can also cause problems at work with frequent checking tweet updates during work time. This may lead to misunderstandings between the management and staff. This is what has led to many organizations banning Twitter from working places. Twitter leads to procrastination as Twitter addicts find themselves too busy to attend to important and urgent matters due to being online chatting, updating tweets and retweeting other people's information. Twitter has been in the news several times over issues of privacy; Twitter makes it easy for people to access information about other people from their profiles as a majority of users tend to give out all their information on their Twitter accounts. This can result to issues of surveillance and hacking. "On health issues, twitter leads to eye strain due to the amount of time spend online on the computer ""(Thompson). .
"Ummm . . . I don't think it's as big of a dilemma as people seem to think. We haven't focused on it yet and I can't say for sure how it's going to work," said Evan Williams, Twitter co-founder and CEO, on how Twitter will make money. On Twitter there are a variety of ways which can be used to fight Twitter addiction. Citation proposed that an addict should understand the symptoms of Twitter addiction and assert that it is necessary to make changes, re-examine your priorities, spend more time with family and friends to keep your mind off the computer, look for another outlet in life or learn new items, and limit the amount of time spent checking your account, instead of using Twitter to communicate with your friends, "Send them text messages or call them so as to reduce the time spend online, and lastly seek professional help" "(Fenichel).