Twitter Guru Sugree says he became addicted to the online social site within a week of tweeting

If you need to speak out, use Twitter. If you want to know every step of someone's life, follow a Twitterer. Either way, be prepared to get addicted to Twitter.

However, if you are not one of the above, be careful when you chat up a Twitter addict - your conversation is likely to be broadcast live to the world.

Sugree Phatanapherom, who is dubbed Thailand's Twitter Guru, always posts tweets on what he is doing - even when he changes his baby's Pampers.

"I realised I was addicted to tweeting within the first week of using it,' he says.

He feels it has become part of his life to tell someone through Twitter what his thoughts are.

During his Daily Xpress interview, Sugree "tweeted" at least five times, including "A Nation journalist is here", "Asked about my high school", and "Bad mouth during an interview. Damn".

Getting feedback on ideas

"If you see something interesting, you naturally want to talk or comment about it. You can talk to your friend if he/she is with you. But if you are alone, you can still talk |to someone - through Twitter. You can speak out and talk |to many people at one time, although you don't really know who they are," he says. "I can also get feedback |for ideas that pop up in my head."

Took up tweeting in 2007

He started to Tweet in 2007, when an American friend who travelled around the world and used Twitter to update friends recommended it.

So far, Sugree has posted more than 141,000 Tweets.

At 30, Sugree is a researcher at the Thai National Grid Centre. He is also studying for a PhD at Kasetsart University's Faculty of Engineering. So it's not strange that he uses a computer all the time.

He uses a mobile phone when travelling, after he leaves office and before turning on his computer at home.

Time for family

He even has a laptop on his bed. However, he spares time for his wife and two kids - after his wife requested him to do so.

"If I am silent [not updating] on Twitter, that means I am |either with my family or sleeping," he says.

But his seven-year-old son doesn't like computers. "He usually asks me, 'Are you secretly taking pictures or videos?!'"