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Title: Twitter


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Twitter
  • For Medicine
  • Holly Miller

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http//twitter.com
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Twitter is ...
  • simple
  • fast
  • way to share and deliver small bits of
    information
  • 140 characters at a time

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Twitter is ...
  • a microblogging tool
  • a microsharing tool
  • a social search engine
  • a global chatroom
  • an RSS feed generator

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Twitter is ...
  • for friends
  • for news
  • for current events
  • for crisis response
  • for timely information

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Uses
  • Gather information
  • Communicate information

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Health News
  • http//twitter.com/bbchealth
  • http//twitter.com/mdconsult
  • http//twitter.com/health

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Medical Info
  • http//twitter.com/ncbi_pubmed
  • http//twitter.com/NIHforHealth
  • http//twitter.com/UKPubMedCentral
  • http//twitter.com/BirdFluGov
  • http//twitter.com/healthmap

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Disaster Preparation
  • http//twitter.com/GetReady

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Hash Tags
  • Words or acronyms
  • begin with
  • metadata about tweets
  • way to co-locate same topic, same event
  • ex bmispr09, medine
  • http//hashtags.org/

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Mine Twitterverse for Info
  • http//search.twitter.com/
  • Search for terms or hash tags

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Twitter Drupal
RSS feed of Twitter feed
Ex. https//twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/411
64651.rss
http//miproject.mbl.edu/2009/spring/admin
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What to use it for?
  • Gather information
  • Communicate information
  • Make your own account
  • Be CAREFUL - the world is listening

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http//twitter.com
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Twitter via SMS
  • Post to twitter via SMS from your phone
  • Receive tweets via SMS

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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
  • Swine flu creates controversy on Twitter -
    Article on CNN.com
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