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Recent data suggests that over half of Social Media practitioners describe themselves as introverts, but that’s definitely not me.  Those who know me, know that I’ve got one of the biggest ego’s of anyone they know. Getting involved in Social Media is probably one the worst things I could have done to my nearly-unquenchable thirst for attention and recognition.  But, then I would depriving all of you from the life-fulfilling experience that is me. I couldn’t do that.

Imagine the titillating thrill, when last Tuesday I realized I was involved in 2 mainstream blog posts – TechCrunch and Mashable. Oh, the joy. Paisono Carta of Mashable re-used my SummerMash Boston interview in his October 5th post describinghow PermissionTV Provides White Label Video Platform Services. I look mah-velous.

But wait – there’s more! The man, the myth, the immortal Michael Arrington of TechCrunch wrote about Jeremy Baines’ upcoming release of AlertThingy and included some screenshots of version 2′s interface. I guess Arrington described some stuff about AlertThingy, but if you look closely at the screenshot, 2nd headshot from the bottom you’ll see . . . yes, that’s right . . . I’m there.  I did it – Matthew Mamet got into TechCrunch.

I am kind of a big deal. I guess I’ll go back to work now.

For those who are interested in micro-blogging and AIR apps, you’ve probably already installed both Twhirl for Twitter and more recently AlertThingy for FriendFeed.

AlertThingy was just released on April 13th by Howard Baines. Three days in, and I do enjoy it. But being a new “thingy,” it lacks some cooler features, including the ability to post directly to Twitter while posting to FriendFeed. Twhirl currently supports something similar – it allows posts to both Twitter and to Pownce.

With a new release of AlertThingy is coming soon, there’s a strong indication this one will come with Twitter support. One of the authors of AlertThingy is a Twitter user himself. In reply to a Tweet from me where I ask of any plans to have AlertThingy update Twitter, too?, Jeremy replies: you never know!

Now, check out his most recent “Tweet Testing!” . Testing a tweet from within AlertThingy perhaps? Twitter is reporting that his most recent Tweet was sent via web, but stay tuned for more details.

Update: Not only has AlertThingy now released support for Twitter, but Twitter has shot back by releasing support for FriendFeed.