Microblogging 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 microbloggers 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 microblogging 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.
You can find many more health-related Twitter users on the
Mark My Words linkblog and on the
Medical Student Blog.
American Diabetes Association
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is leading the fight to stop diabetes and its deadly consequences, and fighting for all those affected by diabetes.
Diabetes Daily
Seeking a better life for everyone affected by diabetes!
Diabetes Info
Compassionately informing and supporting those who live with diabetes. Type 1 Diabetic
diabetesblog
Latest news and views on diabetes cure and management. Your one stop diabetes information source.
DiabetesNews
News and updates from top diabetes info sites.
DiabetesUK
The official Twitter channel at Diabetes UK.
dLife
For your diabetes life.
JDRF
Dedicated to finding a cure for type 1 diabetes (JDRF Australia)
LiveOutLoudwDiabetes
A positive, fun, friendly, informative, diabetes forum.
National Diabetes Education Program
The National Diabetes Education Program is a partnership of NIH and CDC.
RSS Diabetes Trials
An RSS feed from a 'search by condition' at ClinicalTrials.gov, updating with new diabetes trials.
Sugarstats
Simple blood sugar tracking for online diabetes management.
The Diabetes OC
The Diabetes OC was created by people with diabetes who wanted to share their life with the world in order to help others find solace and comfort.
TuDiabetes
TuDiabetes is a nonprofit social network with nearly 16.000 members touched by diabetes.
WDD
News about World Diabetes Day
Allison Harkett
Diabetes, Asthma and a few more problems have meant that I have had to learn how to keep myself slim, fit and healthy.
Bob Hawkinson
The Joy of Diabetes book is an inspirational diabetic handbook that embraces living and thriving with diabetes.
Contrarycook
Beating diabetes one bite at a time.
Dana Lewis
PR student working in health communication, living and tweeting with diabetes and celiac.
DiabetesMine
A gold mine of straight talk and encouragement for people living with diabetes.
Grant Sunada
Utah Diabetes Prevention and Control Program.
Guy Stephens
Father of a small child with diabetes.
Jim Brooks
Aircraft electrical design engineer with a mission to help fellow diabetics!
John Hall
Compassionately encouraging, strengthening, and supporting those who live with diabetes.
Kelly Kunik
Diabetes blogger, humorist, advocate, writer.
Kerri (sixuntilme)
Health blogger, RI, CT, type 1 diabetic, diabetes advocate, writer, photographer, health 2.0, fitness, freelance, cats, web maven, married, new media, film buff
Manny Hernandez
Venezuelan social entrepreneur and community strategist living in the Bay Area. Founder of TuDiabetes.com and EsTuDiabetes.com.
The Poor Diabetic
A type 2 diabetic blogger, father, advocate, diabetes self management technician.
Tony Rose
Data/info visualization, analytics, project management, type 1 diabetic, diabetes, insulin pumper, dad and husband.
Victor Montori, MD
Mayo Clinic diabetes doc and researcher from Peru working for a patient revolution vs. healthcare corruption, and for treatments that fit patients.
There are aggregators that help you find people tweeting about diabetes.
Twellow
Twellow.com is grabbing publicly available messages from Twitter.com, then analyze and categorize each of the users responsible for those messages into the various categories found at Twellow.com.
Diabetes results of Search.Twitter.com
It lets you track all the tweets and tweople focusing on diabetes.
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 one active Friendfeed room
that focuses on diabetes: A place to learn alternative views and current research about all forms of diabetes, with an emphasis on introducing a natural medicine and holistic, easy diet approach.
More than 200 million people suffer from diabetes worldwide and it is one of those medical conditions that are covered in details online. The medical blogosphere and the community sites are very rich in diabetes-related content.
