Twitter
For Medicine
Holly Miller
http://twitter.com
Twitter is ...
simple fast
way to share and deliver small bits of information
140 characters at a time
Twitter is ...
a microblogging tool a microsharing tool
a social search engine
a global chatroom an RSS feed generator
Twitter is ...
for friends for news
for current events
for crisis response for timely information
Uses
Gather information Communicate information
Health News
http://twitter.com/bbchealth http://twitter.com/mdconsult http://twitter.com/health
Medical Info
http://twitter.com/ncbi_pubmed http://twitter.com/NIHforHealth
http://twitter.com/UKPubMedCentral
http://twitter.com/BirdFluGov http://twitter.com/healthmap
Disaster Preparation
http://twitter.com/GetReady
Hash Tags
Words or acronyms begin with #
metadata about tweets
way to co-locate same topic, same event ex: #bmispr09, #medine http://hashtags.org/
Mine Twitterverse for Info
http://search.twitter.com/ Search for terms or hash tags
Twitter
RSS feed of Twitter feed
Drupal
Ex. https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/41164651.rss http://miproject.mbl.edu/2009/spring/admin
What to use it for?
Gather information Communicate information Make your own account
Be CAREFUL - the world is listening
http://twitter.com
Twitter via SMS
Post to twitter via SMS from your phone
Receive tweets via SMS
Resources
Twitter for health and healthcare - Slideshow on SlideShare 140 Health Care Uses for Twitter - Phil Baumann blog post from Jan 16, 2009 Twitter And Health 2.0: A Visual Story - Slideshow by VizEdu Twitter Doctors, Medical Students and Medicine related - List of medicine related twitter users from Medical Student Blog