Each Friday, in honor of the #FollowFriday tradition on Twitter, we will be featuring one of our own Featured Users on the blog.

Today we hear from Adrienne Breaux of AdrienneBreaux.com, who lives right here in Austin, Texas, where FeaturedUsers is headquartered:

Tell me about yourself.

My boyfriend and I traveled to Austin in a van two years ago on a country-wide tour of the United States–and never left. Austin was our first stop! Since I’ve been here, I’ve had the genuine pleasure of working at one of the coolest stores in Austin, IF+D, and starting my own business. I currently dabble in a heady mix of interior design consulting, pet sitting and freelance writing. I have an intense hatred for coffee. Smoothies, water and fruit juice ONLY, please.

How (and when) did you first come to be on Twitter, and how has the experience evolved for you?

I started twittering probably about a year ago, when I first quit my day job to take the leap and start my own business. I picked an important few tech-geeks to follow and watched how they used the tool, as well as read tons of blog posts and articles on the subject, so that I could seem like I knew what I was doing. I’ve done alright, I think!

Because I don’t have a smart phone, Twitter is primarily an internet tool for me. Besides direct messages, I rarely receive updates on my phone. I do believe I’d be just about the rudest person ever if I had constant access to the site–I’d check it at the dinner table constantly.

I’d say the only way it really evolved for me is just my understanding of the nuances of trying to market on Twitter. Listening to followers, using sites like bit.ly to track my link clicks—all to make sure I’m not being too annoying online!

Twitter is one of my main news sources now, as well. The first thing I do in the morning is go through all the new updates, clicking and opening in new tabs all the headlines or links that look interesting. I catch up on the day’s hottest headlines and learn about what my friends are interested in at the same time.

Where are you located? What’s your favorite thing about where you live?

I live just off South Congress Avenue, and I have to admit, I am a total snob about it. I really feel like my boyfriend and I live in the best part of Austin. Our favorite thing about it is its proximity to everything else. We can walk to South Congress awesomeness, walk to downtown, grab our bikes and go to the East Side, Zilker, Barton Springs or even the Greenbelt. We are in and around some of my favorite places of Austin. Man I’m lucky!

What are you most excited about sharing with your followers?

Probably the same thing I try to share with my blog readers: what an awesomely creative and talented place Austin is. I always tell people that when I graduated from college (with an Interior Design degree), all of my classmates went to either Houston or Dallas, the supposed hotbeds of design and architecture.

After living here all of a week, I saw how underestimated Austin designers were, and decided to make it my mission to showcase all the amazing architects, interior designers, landscape architects, graphic designers, photographers, artists, etc. we have here in this city. I am continually delighted and surprised. So, if you see a link I’m posting on Twitter, 99% of the time it’s an amazing local design link!

What’s your favorite thing to do when you’re not online?

The two R’s and L: Read. Run. Laugh. As corny as it sounds, I’m determined to publish a novel one day and so I’m constantly reading to become a better writer (and because it’s intensely enjoyable). I love to run around the hike and bike trail and get much clarity and creativity from a good run. My boyfriend is a comedian at Coldtowne Theater here in Austin, and so you can find me there lots of the time, laughing at all the amazingly funny and talented people over there.

Thanks, Adrienne!