3. What isTwitter?
•online social networking/microblogging service enabling
users to send and read text-based messages (≤140
characters) known as "tweets".
•you only read who you follow, vice versa
•links to all web-based media
•global conversation wing of Free Open Access
Meducation movement (FOAM)
versus
Don’t pre-judge Twitter by how most people use
it.
4. What can possibly be said in a tweet?
140 characters
Avg. English word=4.5 letters
Roughly 30 words per tweet=maximum optimal slide
@JeremyFaust
A good tweet=a good presentation slide
5. What is aTwitter Feed?
•constantly updating
timeline of all tweets
by you and people
you follow.
•real-time
information sharing
•conversations and
debates
6. What is a hashtag???!!
“#” pronounced “hashtag”
how you search for and view concepts by
topic (instead of chronology)
If “#ACEP12” appears in a tweet, it gets
filed with all other tweets with “#ACEP 12”
#FOAMed is the hashtag for the free online
Emergency Medicine education movement
7. TopTen Reasons to be an EM Doc onTwitter
10. Channel the buzz: use turn your phone obsession
into something useful.
•Links to articles
•Real time debates
•Eavesdrop on
leaders in the field
8. ...or maximize your downtime.
t
playing mindless
game learning on Twitter
10. Channel the buzz: use turn your phone obsession
into something useful.
Top Ten Reasons to be an EM Doc on Twitter
9. 9. Change your participation from
old school new reality
passive to active
@JeremyFaust
•LiveTweeting a conference/talk = being a
reporter, creating a news ticker.
•People around the world benefit from your
tweets and thank you!
11. 8. Change your participation from
active to passive
No need to actively
search things out.
Twitter brings important
things to you.
12. 8. Change your participation from
active to passive
•follow through on your
intention to read that article.
•or learn what experts think.
13. 7. Use Twitter to augment/replace your Journal
Watch (or blog aggregator)
Mike and Matt’s
US podcast
News from LAC
conference
Random peds crit
care update
MD from Costa
Rica comments on
LAC
14. 6. Go to conferences from your...anywhere.
@JeremyFaust
15. 5. Ask questions at conferences
Conference questions via Twitter is coming.
Get comfy now!
Twitter forces short focused questions, disallows diatribe.
Removes participation barriers:
nerves/fear of public speaking
16. 4. Keep up with the conversations that matter
4a. Keep up with conversations that matter less
Weingart Lin Mattu Reid Le Cong Lex Mallemat
17. 3. Make friends and professional connections now,
meet them later
I’ve met in the past
Umana Gussow Ranney
I met today
Joshi Haber Marcus
I will meet in the
future
Benitez May Le Cong Thousands
more
18. 2. Keep up with mainstream science media
(as well as EM-specific journals)
19. 1.Twitter is here to stay. It is not too late to be an early adaptor. Be
a part of the EM/Twitter/#FOAMed revolution.
@JeremyFaust
“Resistance is futile”
20. Not just the more the merrier....
....the more the better.
Thank you!
@JeremyFaust
FOAM is the concept.
Twitter is the conversation.
#FOAMed is the hashtag.
more voices=more niche expertise=better
conversations.
