“Twitter is quickly becoming a buzzword with many permutations. Suffixes, prefixes, and infixes give the denizens of the twittersphere (see what I did there) a new vocab mash-up opportunity the likes of which haven’t been seen since Blog was added to the Oxford English Dictionary. But more than just buzzing words, Twitter has quickly become the chosen method of communication for social media mavens world-wide, including people interested in health care. When I first heard about Twitter I thought, “Well that seems like a waste of time. Why would I spend my hours sending out status updates when I could just blog?” The fact is people didn’t really want to read my blog. It was generally too long and too hard to find. What Twitter offered me was a way to connect to people in short bites of information that others actually subscribed to. Because that’s what a twitter ‘follow’ is–a subscription to your words. And there is no easier way to get people to start listening to you despite ever decreasing attention spans. But speaking out is only a fraction of Twitter’s functionality.”
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Naimul Huq, Crumple it up, 22 January 2009
