A couple of weeks ago I was looking at the four icons in the lower right corner of the AC face page, and out of the blue wondered what this little bird icon could do and so I asked my now 14 year old son to help me set up a twitter account. His first response was "Dad you are not really going to tweet are you?"
After a short bit of playing around, just a few initial observations.
There is a huge twitter world out there I had no idea existed, and a lot of great stuff as it pertains to medicine.
I think setting up people or entities to follow and watching the twitter feeds come in real time from them has been incredibly helpful with expanding my knowledge base of current events. I find myself clicking on the home button between patients to keep up with great articles and other links that take you to places otherwise unexpected.
Intersecting pathways of interests outside of medicine also has been quite surprising. My daughter after a day or two said, "you think Kallan is on twitter?" Kallan happens to be her first cousin who farms north of us where my wife grew up, and we were pleasantly surprised to find an extremely elaborate twitter account that he manages, and the exchange of ideas and problem solving with primarily folks in the agriculture business has been quite interesting to observe.
Another aspect of twitter are the followers, and I am still trying to grasp how that portion of twitter functions, but will hopefully discuss this further at a later time.
Overall impression, I am having a ball with this new world (to me) I never knew existed, so just from a perspective of enhancing your knowledge base in medicine, I highly recommend giving it a go.
I apologize if most or all of this stuff is obvious to most or all others, but I had a preconceived notion twitter was something not at all like I have discovered.
