Month: July 2018

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Twitter and the New England Journal of Medicine

In the last month, the NEJM published two articles with Twitter as a central focus.

First there was “Social Media and Advancement of Women Physicians” featuring Heather Logghe’s #ILookLikeASurgeon and @McSassyMD, @SingleScalpel and @DoctorMeowskis‘s #GirlMedTwitter

https://twitter.com/mcsassymd/status/1019283981106405376

And then in tomorrow’s print edition is former NEJM editor, Lisa Rosenbaum‘s editorial about Esther Choo‘s recent viral hashtag #ShareAStoryInOneTweet, Twitter Tailwinds — Little Capsules of Gratitude.

It is amazing to see thought leaders in medicine emerge from #MedTwitter. And it is equally amazing to see the oldest of the old guard, The NEJM, embracing this brave new world.

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Curbsiders #104: Renal Tubular Acidosis

This is the back half of my Acid-Base talk, a detailed dive into non-anion gap metabolic acidosis with an examination of renal tubular acidosis. This one turned out pretty good.

Here is a link to the Curbsiders page for this episode.

This is the sequel to #88 Acid base, boy bands, and grandfather clocks with Joel Topf MD

Before that I did episode #67 and #69 on chronic kidney disease

Before that was #48 Hyponatremia Deconstructed

And I started my Curbsiders career with #31 Diuretics, leg cramps and resistant hypertension.

So non-anion gap metabolic acidosis is my fifth or sixth appearance on the Curbsiders. Thanks guys.

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Tweetorial attention attenuation–updated

My first Tweetorial has turned into my second most popular tweet, only behind:

A tale of two tweets:

Twitter analytics provide a unique opportunity to look deeper than just who saw the original tweet. By checking the analytics of each subsequent tweet in the stream we can see how many people trudged all the way to the end.So how did the hyponatremia tweet stream do? Here are the analytics from the first to the last tweet.The Y-axis is “Impressions.”This is not impressions like Symplur does (used to do?). This is not the tweets multiplied by the number of followers. Twitter is in the unique position to know how many times any particular tweet is delivered to a device. So your cousin who lost her twitter password in 2014 and the sock puppet account that Eugene Gu abandoned in medical school don’t get counted as impressions. The first Tweet had 47,000 impressions. The second had 5,700. That first step is a doozy.From there things were surprisingly stable. Hey Dr V, let’s see a blog post track who reads to the end of the post.More than 3,000 people read pretty much the entire stream. I am quite satisfied. 3000 people is a lot of grand rounds.

 

Update

Some people have wondered about the second drop in participation that occurs at tweet 31.

I think the answer is here:

When you click on the initial tweet, you can see tweets 1-30, but to get the last 5 you need to click on the “5 more replies” link.

The final bump is due to a surge of people tweeting in celebration of completing the tweet stream:

 

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How to search Twitter

And this from NephJC by Nimra Sarfaraz.

And the all important advanced search link: https://twitter.com/search-advanced

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My first Tweetorial: When salt tablets work in hyponatremia (and when they do not)

I hope you like my first tweetorial

I recently saw a patient with hyponatremia and cirrhosis. He had been started on salt tablets to try to correct the hyponatremia. In a limited number of diagnosis salt tablets can help hyponatremia. Cirrhosis is not one of them. I created this Tweetorial to teach some basic hyponatremia physiology and clear up when they may work and when they will not.

This is my first shot at a Tweetorial. I wrote out the tweets in Apple Notes. I think I will use a spreadsheet with a character counter next time. Too many of my Tweet-length thoughts ended up being a bit too wordy. Having a counter during creation would help.

I also should have more links and pics.

Additionally, I bought the domain Tweetorial.org. Any ideas what I should use it for?