BMJ Careers have published an easy to follow demystification of twitter for doctors written by Alexander Young and Jonathan Bloor. It is well worth reading.
Twitter is a growing and hugely popular website and is an ideal medium for disseminating information to users quickly. Although it is primarily a social networking site, it has been used by medical organisations to keep medical professionals and patients updated with the latest news and policies. In addition, the website allows doctors to network and exchange information with fellow professionals quickly and succinctly. Whether the more innovative applications of Twitter, such as teaching and disease tracking, prove to be more than novelties of the system remains to be seen.
Read the entire article here (thanks to @tiagoMGF via @agouveia).
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Thanks for this article . We building a site called ‘ healthcarewealthcare.com , financial and business news for docs….and I like getting this kind of info to our Tweeties, so i just ‘tweeted” our people. We’re at hwcare on Twitter if you ever care to pop over. Thanks folks.
Thanks for this article . We building a site called ‘ healthcarewealthcare.com , financial and business news for docs….and I like getting this kind of info to our Tweeties, so i just ‘tweeted” our people. We’re at hwcare on Twitter if you ever care to pop over. Thanks folks.