Microblogging: Twitter and Friendfeed

Micro-blogging is the practice of sending brief text updates, photos, audio/video clips or links and make these public on a website and/or distributed to a private group of subscribers. These messages can be submitted by text messaging, instant messaging or e-mail.

Many micro-blogs provide short commentary about medical news, medical specialties or a company's products and services.

Webicina features two microblogging platforms including Twitter and Friendfeed.

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates, which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

In countries all around the world, people follow the sources most relevant to them and access information via Twitter as it happens—from breaking world news to updates from friends.

Twitter users focusing on depression

• polarwisdom ("PolarWisdom is a news, community and advocacy feed for those dedicated to living well with depression and bipolar disorder.")


• TalkLife ("On demand mental health phone counseling. This is our Tweetline. We're here to listen! Managed by @kynamdoan, @shawea")


• David Bransford MD ("Psychiatric Physician..in clinical practice in Northern MN for past 25 yrs. M.D. Psychiatry")


• emperornorton ("Deadbeat, reconciler of cats and dog, advocate for bipolar sufferers, progressive (rather than liberal), retired peace activist, poet, writer, blogger")


• postpartumprogr ("postpartum depression gir")


• JNez ("notching victories over HIV & depression for 20 years")


• kevleitch ("Autism and Manic Depression advocate")


• MentalHealhSocial.com ("MentalHealhSocial.com is a Great Mental Health Social Network")


• drlaurasmith ("Co-author of 8 psychology books including: OCD for Dummies and Depression for Dummies")


• praeburn ("Journalist. Author of "Acquainted with the Night," a memoir of raising kids with depression and bipolar disorder")


• curedepression ("It all began at the end -from suicidal to helping others. I learned the scoop from the medical journals on what cures depression. Follow me and find hope.")


• vovh ("living with diabetes, peripheral neuropathy, depression")


• JohnFW ("Collaborative public policy mediator/blogger, mental health-depression blogger-www.storiedmind.com")


• postpartumwell ("Assessment, counseling, support, and education for postpartum depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders during and after pregnancy")


• drkkolmes ("Licensed clinical psychologist with a private practice specializing in anxiety, depression, relationships, and sexual concerns.")


• drnabil ("A pediatric psychologist with expertise in autism, ADHD, behavior management, anxiety and depression in youth")


• ozzieblackcat ("My brother and I write a blog about having lived our lives with depression. ")


• tedder42 ("motorcyclist, geek, OCPD/OCD, depression, photog nut, programmer, geek, geek, geek.")


• Dr. Keely Kolmes ("Clinical psychologist in private practice specializing in anxiety, depression, relationships, sexuality and the intersection of technology and mental health.")


• BlueLikeYou ("Feeling blue? Join us in the Blue Like You media campaign to create a new reality around the way we experience and perceive depression in our society. ")


• bonnietoner ("I live in the UK. After going through a really difficult time, I wrote a book to help other people with depression")


• mentalhealthuk ("Mental Health UK")


• johnmcman ("mental health journalist")

Find more depression-related Twitter users on TweepSearch.com.

You can find many more health-related Twitter users on the Mark My Words linkblog and on the Medical Student Blog.

There are aggregators that help you find people tweeting about depression.

Depression results of Search.Twitter.com

It lets you track all the tweets and tweople focusing on depression.

Just Tweet It Health Directory

Choose a category and find other Twitter users or list your name to let people find you!

Omnee

Omnee uses an innovative 3D hybrid ratings system to bring you the top users for each tag. We combine manual ratings (the size of the username) and computed ratings (the order based on Twinfluence ratings across four influence factors and colour based on Retweetrank).

Twellow

Twellow.com is currently grabbing publicly available messages from the Twitter.com micro-blogging service. They analyze and categorize each of the users responsible for those messages into the various categories found at Twellow.com.

Friendfeed is an aggregator that collects the updates from social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs and micro-blogging updates, as well as any other type of RSS feed. Users can use this stream of information to create customized feeds to share (and comment) with friends. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among a community.




There is no Friendfeed room focusing on depression, but doing a search for depression in the total Friendfeed timeline might provide you with some useful information and links.