Medical Twitterers
I’ve been using Twitter for a couple of weeks now, and I can assure you that it has been a breathtaking experience. Twitter is a microblogging service that allows you to send and receive short posts, called tweets, limited to 140 characters. These tweets are displayed on the users profile page and also sent to the followers of that specific user.
These are my reasons to Twitter:
1. keeping in touch with the most recent news in Health 2.0
2. receiving links to new blog posts from people I’m following
3. spreading new ideas and discoveries to a wide community of GPs, physicians and eHealth entrepreneurs
4. reading twitterviews (e.g. read from bottom to top: Berci Mesko being twitterviewed by DiarioMedico.com yesterday)
5. following Lance Armstrong on his daily practicing, Shaquille Oneal or even Monty Phyton’s John Cleese
6. having clinical questions to be answered in a snap
7. accompanying patients thoughts and achievments, eg. DiabetesMine
This is definitely a powerful tool for enabling global communication and knowledge sharing.
Read more in Wikipedia and this article in MedTech Journal.
You can find my Twitter profile page here.
