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. I listed 10 reasons how doctors can use Twitter.

People who post about surgery:

• Tim Lawler: Physician in the Navy living in Pensacola, currently becoming a Flight Surgeon. Love to meet new peeps so please don't hesistate to shoot me a message.
  
  
• Dr. Mehmet Oz: I'm a surgeon and frequent Oprah guest, about to launch my own TV show about health.
  
  
• Dr Martha Castro MD: Cyclist, Medical Doctor and General Surgeon. Love cats, Lance Armstrong and love life.
  
  
• Ammar Jarrous: Dr. Jarrous is one of the most experienced surgeons in Amarillo with Vein Ablation and endoscopic vein procedures.
  
  
• Garth Fisher, MD: Plastic Surgeon Beverly Hills, Co-Founder-Chairman CellCeuticals Skin Care Inc; Happy husband; Father of 3
  
  
• Fred Howard MD: I am a general surgeon in my 8th year of practice. Married 26 years with three children. Just looking to spread the health.
  
  
• Dr Vic Kalman: I have a passion for helping people with their health. Husband, father, surgeon, author, teacher and entrepreneur.
  
  
• John Di Saia MD: Your BS- free OC Plastic Surgeon who blogs, writes freelance and is rarely (if ever) without an opinion.
  
  

Surgery news / organisations:

• Henry Ford News: Tweets about live surgeries.
  
  
• ASDSA: American Society for Dermatologic Surgery Association advocates for patient safety, skin cancer prevention, and more.
  
  
• ASPS: The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) is the largest plastic surgery specialty organization in the world.
  
  
• Columbia Surgery: This account provides general information and news about Columbia University Surgery.
  
  
• Web 2.0 Surgery: Web 2.0 Surgery is an informal gathering of experts and clients to discuss all things Web 2.0
  
  

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

Just Tweet It

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).

Search.twitter.com

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

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.

UK Surgeon

Information and discussions on surgery

Click here to see all surgery-related Friendfeed rooms