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.

Diabetes news / organisations:

• DiabetesUK (the official Twitter channel at Diabetes UK)
  
  
• tudiabetes (Tudiabetes is a global online community with forums)
  
  
• DiabetesNews
  
  
• RSS Diabetes Trials: An RSS feed from a 'search by condition' at ClinicalTrials.gov, updating with new diabetes trials.
  
  
• jdrf : Dedicated to finding a cure for type 1 diabetes (JDRF Australia)
  
  
• diabetesdaily
  
  
• thediabetesoc: 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.
  
  
• WDD - news about World Diabetes Day
  
  
• dlife: dLife - For your diabetes life.
  
  
• LiveOutLoudwDiabetes: A Positive, Fun, Friendly, Informative, Diabetes Forum.
  
  
• diabetesblog
  
  
• Blogabetes: There are some diabetes supplies people buy. For everything else, there's BLOGABETES.
  
  
• NCDPnews: National Changing Diabetes Program serves as a catalyst, convener and aligner for diabetes in America by creating change in the US system of health care.
  
  
• John Hall I Diabetes: Compassionately encouraging, strengthening, and supporting those who live with diabetes.
  
  
• Diabetes Info (Montreal, Quebec): Compassionately informing and supporting those who live with diabetes. Type 1 Diabetic
  
  
• Sugarstats: Simple Blood Sugar Tracking for Online Diabetes Management
  
  

People who post about diabetes:

• askmanny: Venezuelan social entrepreneur and community strategist living in the Bay Area. Founder of TuDiabetes.com and EsTuDiabetes.com.
  
  
• DiabetesMine: A gold mine of straight talk and encouragement for people living with diabetes
  
  
• Bob Hawkinson: The Joy of Diabetes book is an inspirational diabetic handbook that embraces living with Type 1 Diabetes (Juvenile Diabetes) and Type 2 Diabetes.
  
  
• guy1067 (father of a small child with diabetes)
  
  
• Kelly Kunik (Diabetes Blogger/Humorist/Advocate/Writer. )
  
  
• utahdiabetes (Utah Diabetes Prevention and Control Program)
  
  
• Cherise (Type 1.5/LADA diabetic,Omnipod user, Military wife and mother of a 3 year old Diva)
  
  
• 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.)
  
  
• contrarycook: Beating Diabetes One Bite at a Time
  
  
• 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
  
  
• bishop1073: Type 1 Diabetic, Artist, Designer.
  
  
• dsainsights: Data/Info Visualization, Analytics, Project Mgmt, Type 1 Diabetic, Diabetes, Insulin Pumper, Dad and Husband
  
  
• Diabeticizme: Type 1.5/LADA diabetic
  
  
• danamlewis: PR student working in health communication, living & tweeting with diabetes and celiac.
  
  
• Jim Brooks: Aircraft electrical design engineer with a mission to help fellow diabetics!
  
  

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 diabetes.

Diabetes results of Search.Twitter.com

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

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. We then 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 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.