I’ve been registered on Twitter under the username @Sheamus since March 8, 2008. Well over three years. In that time I’ve built up a pretty reasonable following and certain amount of recognition in the Twitter and social media space.

But that’s on Twitter. In the ‘real world’ the most famous Sheamus is arguably Irish professional wrestler Sheamus O’Shaunessy. To be honest I don’t know much about wrestling – apart from that it’s very, very silly – but what I do know is that O’Shaunessy started to get pretty popular in the past couple of years.

And this has given me all sorts of problems. On Twitter.

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When I first started writing this article I had originally planned to list my ten favourite articles on Twittercism in 2010. As I started to put the post together I found that ten wasn’t enough. I know this statement has ‘monster ego’ written all over it, and to some extent that’s 100 per cent accurate, but if you’re a fellow blogger or a writer then you’ll know how it feels when you’re asked to edit or be selective about your own content, even if it’s an instruction from yourself. It’s hard.

Yes, I wrote all of these pieces. But they feel like my babies.

So, I compromised, and kept in everything I thought was pretty good, and separated all the posts into categories.

• Get Better At Twitter
• The Business Of Twitter
• Twitter Etiquette
• Your Twitter Identity
• Followers & Following
• Twitter Improvements (aka, Whinging & Moaning)
• Twitter Security
• Twitter Clients
• Opinion (And Everything Else)

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