by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter, Twitter Ethics
Twitter describes the technical differences between muting and blocking well, which I would summarize like this: muting is simply not seeing someone’s tweets (or tweets with specific words, emojis, or hashtags), whereas blocking preventing all interaction with...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter, Twitter Ethics
The guillotine is a hungry mistress, and will eventually turn on those feeding it. Consider the two leaders of the French Revolution, Georges-Jacques Danton, and Maximilien Robespierre, both of who led the charge against the unjust Ancien Régime, but both of which...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter, Twitter Ethics
I am not a big fan of flags. To me, flags are often less about unifying people, as they are about unifying people against “the other.” I suspect this utility of being a tool against the other is based on their first use as a military tool, 5000 years ago, on the...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter, Twitter Ethics, Uncategorized
We all know that tweets with photographs and videos have higher engagement than stand alone tweets. Some say up to 1200% more engagement. We also all know that tweets with humor get more engagement. Finally, and sadly, we also knowt highly negative tweets –...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | CEOs on Twitter, Twitter, Twitter Ethics
It’s one thing for your healthcare organization to have an organizational twitter account. Consumers of these tweets expect the content from these tweets is coming from an anonymous source within the organization; there is also an expectation it’s going to be...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Facebook, Social Media, Twitter Ethics
Please read the excellent, but disturbing medical article Obesity in social media: a mixed methods analysis. You will quickly understand the need for physicians and other medical professionals to be more engaged on social media. In this study, which looked at the word...
