Twitter a real-time tool of healthcare information?August 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Medics are contemplating the use of popular micro-blogging service Twitter as valuable means of healthcare information and medical alerts. The social networking website, which lets a group of recipients receive short messages, or "tweets" simultaneously, has come under the consideration of physician groups, hospitals, and healthcare organizations who were looking at its benefit to communicate timely information both within the medical community and to patients and the public.
Twitter Global Visitors Cross Digg, LinkedIn, NYTimesMay 21st, 2009 Twitter's shooting up at a reckless pace as if it's got a nitro boost. Figures released by comScore reveals that Twitter's global unique visitor this April had touched 32 million, gaining 13 million visitors since March 2009. Twitter flaunts 17 million unique visitors in U.S alone.
Twittering Away...June 21st, 2007 I just got hooked into twitter, a service which exists for the sole purpose of letting others know what you are doing at this moment. However it is more than that.
How To Send Your iPhone Videos to TwitterJuly 14th, 2009 Twitter is not just restricted to micro-blogging, there's a world of Twitter apps that'll let you do almost everything you expect from a social networking site. What about sending iPhone videos to Twitter? I prefer videos, as they can easily convey a lot more than what you do with just 140 words on Twitter.
Is Twitter Enabling Stalking?July 16th, 2007 Stalking appears to be the most appropriate way to describe my recent experiences. First of all Twitter (I love the service) has changed the message from so and so is your friend to the eerie message so and so is following you.
Twitter is Blindingly Slow...June 22nd, 2007 While Twitter is an useful service and pretty enjoyable too, it has become blindingly slow to the point of being unusable, the price of popularity I presume. Now you can look in my twitter profile to find out everything, which I decide to write about, I am doing.
How many Twitter users are there?October 4th, 2009 I was playing around with the twitter API and I found a way to find the exact number of Twitter users. Note: The number of twitter users is continuously increasing by dozens every second, however it will still be accurate at the time of this writing for the higher order digits.
Twitter Overloaded... Again and AgainJune 26th, 2008 Twitter seems to be having serious scalability issues, a malaise which plagued the otherwise popular service since its early days. Could this be related to its architectural decision of adopting Ruby-on-Rails? There was a rumor not so long ago that twitter was abandoning Ruby on Rails.
The Secret To TwitterMarch 29th, 2008 Robert Scoble recently commented that the secret to twitter is to follow more people, that way you get to learn more. I agree that is it important.
Apple, Isn't it High Time to Renovate the App Stores?February 9th, 2009 Mobile apps had never penetrated the vogue ever before as with iPhone and iPod Touch. Millions of downloads and thousands of programs have filliped the apps market.
Top 10+ Twitter App for Bloggers April 22nd, 2009 When I see bloggers desperate to build up Twitter following, it reminds me of the Pied Piper of Hamelin who would have the children follow his flute's tune. Well, the modern Pied Pipers, pop star Britney Spears, actor Ashton Kutcher and the TV network in the battle for most popular Twitterati are striving to touch the million followers mark.
NASA's new Twitter strategy: Se Habla Espanol; Astro_Jose to tweet bilingually from spaceJuly 2nd, 2009 NASA astronaut takes Twitter to space en EspanolWASHINGTON — NASA has tweeted in space, but now one of its astronauts is breaking a new space Twitter barrier. He'll tweet from space in Spanish and English.
After last week's outage, Twitter is down briefly because of another attackAugust 11th, 2009 Another attack downs Twitter, briefly this timeNEW YORK — Twitter has suffered from another attack following one that left the site down for several hours last week. Tuesday's outage was brief.
Twitter launches home page with a new lookJuly 29th, 2009 LONDON - Popular microblogging website Twitter has launched a new home page. The Internet phenomenon, which boasts of an estimated 55 million visitors each month, made changes to the page, that now includes a search facility and lists the 23 most popular "trending topics" "by the minute, day, and week".
Twitter outage clamps tweets, site says cause 'unknown'August 6th, 2009 Twitter outage clamps tweets, cause 'unknown'NEW YORK — Twitter is down. For users of the short messaging site, this means no tweeting about lunch plans, the weather or the fact that Twitter is down.
This one is an exclusive section for those health freaks who believe Twitter can't help them to stay in the pink. Well, nobody can tolerate the extra bit of fat hanging from their bay window. Why worry when Twitter has great apps to help your health and of others. Could there be a better idea than tweeting useful health tips? You can even do that from your mobile. What I feel is, you are what you eat and that your food controls your health. Moreover exercising is also essential if you're on of those dull boys. Well there are a number of Twitter apps that can help you out with your health.
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March 31st, 2009 at 5:56 am
We at Trialx have just launched a twitter app to increase information availability of clinical trials
The app is simple. All you need is to QuTweet (query tweets pronounced cute-tweets) us at TrialX (@trialx), put in the keyword “CT” (for Clinical Trial) followed by your health profile. In about a minute it’ll send you a reply tweet with a tinyurl link to the TrialX page containing matching FDA approved trials as per your QuTweet. (http://blog.trialx.org)