Do medical students or Pre meds use twitter? If so, what do you guys use it for?

[AHossain]

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I am curious to find out.

 

[iceman132]

They use it because they are desperate for attention.

 

[tiedyeddog]

I follow journals, my medical school, and inspirational quotes. Also, some comedians.

 

[StoicJosher]

They use it because they are desperate for attention.

inb4 holier-than-thou comments.. Oh wait, never mind!

 

[AHossain]

What journals do you follow tdog?

 

[sha15]

personal use with friends and some celebrities, just like everyone else...this is the only place virtual or real that i'll really talk about medicine

 

[blizzah]

personal use with friends and some celebrities, just like everyone else...this is the only place virtual or real that i'll really talk about medicine

Exactly. Being a premed doesn't preclude you from acting like other people.

Celebrities, athletes, sportscasters and friends.

 

[ppfizenm]

I try to incite rebellions in middle eastern countries with my tweets

 

[jf1987]

Mulling over business problems, examining opportunities, exchanging rumors, spreading gossip.

 

[plumhill]

I don't use it. Waste of time over things that don't really matter. I draw the line at Facebook.

 

[tiedyeddog]

I try to incite rebellions in middle eastern countries with my tweets

Maybe you should try a little harder on Iran.

I follow NEJM, Elsevier Neuro, AAMC, LA Times health med, Neurosurgery journal, my medical school and center, and my religion's twitter. Also, I will will ferrel and tosh.o. Tosh is hilarious.

 

[Camy99]

I use it to:

- stalk friends and celebs
- update people on my every move they could care less about
- update more often than I would on FB
- find out about celeb deaths/gossip an hr before everyone else
- follow some MCAT studying helpers
- follow some wishful medschools
- cool quotes and other useless stuff

Being premed and a normal person aren't mutually exclusive. #whowouldhavethought

 

[Lazybum2014]

I have a fb BC it looks sketchy I think not to have one.
Ans I use twitter for a way to say **** that goes on in my head.

Very random.

 

[Midwestern Blot]

People that bash twitter either don't know how to use it or don't know how to use it effectively. It's not facebook and it doesn't have to be considered a social networking site. I get a lot of my breaking news from twitter.

 

[deleted432032]

Corona news and updates, more recently through Absinthe v0.4 - 5.0.1 🙂

 

[CodeBlu]

I use it as a news source. BBC, CNN etc.

 

[asrikrishnan]

Corona news and updates, more recently through Absinthe v0.4 - 5.0.1 🙂

Good things to follow!! I follow many of the developers that develop on my Android device and iOS. I also follow certain medical schools and celebs.

You know the same ol' same ol' as normal people..

 

[ljpm8224]

used to use it. Decided I wasn't getting all that much value from it, and was more of a time-sink to screw around on without any benefits. Don't need another random internet time-waster, already use facebook and these forums for that!

People on there tend to fall into the narcissism/humblebragging trap... what is the point other than just to be self promotional? I guess I don't get twitter!

 

[jweezy225]

I use it for keeping up with friends who aren't on Facebook much, for breaking news (pretty much celebrity deaths, lol), for funny quotes, to randomly express myself (lol), and for my blog (www.trendyblackguy.com)

I think Twitter is really quite amazing, but it isn't for everyone.

 

[AHossain]

I think it's useful for following journals and magazines

 

[TACMON]

I think it's useful for following journals and magazines

twitter has it's own language practically...shortened hyperlinks, hashtags, 'at' signs....it's a strange world

 

[SpecterGT260]

I don't use it. Waste of time over things that don't really matter. I draw the line at Facebook.

Which is apparently past sdn

 

[kristinairene]

I use one and don't have much post in it besides the retweets and stuff. I like to read some of the funny quotes on my twitter timeline though, they're super hilarious.

 

[Tapiokapudding]

purely social, 3/4ths of my followers are people I know well at my school

I enjoy twitter because my facebook is filled with people I kinda know, but everybody I follow on twitter I am close with, and I genuinely care about their status updates ((for me, about 120 following/followers is the magic number)

 

[candav]

No, no pre-meds or medical students use Twitter. It's in the Hippocratic Oath.

 

[varsityblue]

I use Twitter to stay connected with my colleagues as I find it much more stimulating than Facebook; the latter seems like a time waster to me.

 

[vapor90]

my .02 on twitter = lewis black's .02 on twitter. warning: if cursing freaks you out, then my post ends here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzNkolUVBlQ

 

[QuizzicalApe]

I use it as a content aggregator for various comedians, publications, and organizations.

 

[BurntFlower]

I created a Twitter account to find out what the fuss was all about. I never use it now.

 

[DrJMR]

Interesting article:
"A new study of mobile phone habits shows 75 percent of people have texted, emailed, used apps or surfed the web while nature calls. More than 90 percent of people between 28 and 35 will return a call or text while sitting on the toilet."

#toilettweeting

 

[AHossain]

Lol^

 

[lat3ralus65]

I don't really tweet, but I use it to follow funny people and sports teams and personalities - for example, I keep up with my alma mater's basketball and hockey teams via the athletic department's Twitter.