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