Social Networking and Healthcare - Twitter Anyone?

Posted by PPR at 5/21/2009 10:55 AM
Categories: Technology,Marketing



It’s funny; yesterday I was just having a conversation with someone about twitter and healthcare. Now I find an article about hospitals using social networking to educate and market to patients. I probably should not be surprised about this because it seems that everywhere I turn now I hear about “twitter”. The only thing I am upset about is that I did not think of it first – I will add it to the list…

So, with that said – If you ever wanted to know what twitter is, I will tell you:

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets.

Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers). Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow anybody to access them. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. The service is free to use over the Internet, but using SMS may incur phone service provider fees.

Now that you know what twitter is  – Its time to sign up for your own account and get started with social networking for you and your practice: www.twitter.com

Good Luck!

 

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